![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) * WhatsApp service * About Us ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) ## Child trafficking allegation # Video provides no evidence of Ukraine connection April 3, 2023, 1:42 p.m. (CEST) A recording from a TikTok stream is said to be “child trafficking in Ukraine” prove. But there are no solid ones in the questionable video Evidence of a Ukraine connection. According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), war and Human trafficking hand in hand. At the same time, things keep popping up online Misinformation on this highly emotional topic. This is what happens on Facebook an excerpt from a live stream was distributed that supposedly... “Organ trafficking/child trafficking via TikTok in Ukraine” is supposed to prove. What's on is there any truth to this claim? ## Evaluation The video provides no evidence to support the claim of “child trafficking TikTok in Ukraine». There is no evidence that the stream Participants have something to do with Ukraine. However, it remains possible that real human traffickers discuss their plans there. ## Facts The TikTok video is already not included in the source attribution of the stream correct: The German-speaking author of the video provides a Ukrainian one TikTok user as the creator of the live stream. However, that is wrong: The The user distributed the video on her channel herself with the intention of To create awareness for the scandalous content. She wanted “them Authorities see these videos,” as it says in the video description. Trace leads to Russian woman in the USA Further image and video comparisons as well as the search for “digital footprints” lead to the actual host of the stream: This is a since Russian woman who has lived in the USA for over 20 years and has a TikTok account flagged several times for possible infringing content (here, here or here). became. The stream itself can no longer be found on her TikTok channel. Your video recording offers the only temporal indication that the stream took place after the Russian invasion of February 2022: Sun She, the only one who can be seen on video in the stream, is wearing a T-shirt the well-known motif of a postage stamp from the Ukrainian Post, which was issued at the end of April Published in 2022 and only then available in free trade. The only other Ukraine reference is the Ukrainian avatar flag one Stream participant who takes little part in the conversation. Other participants of the Streams cannot be identified either. Except for a man who is... When “Maksim” is addressed, no names are mentioned. Hardly any countries are mentioned in the conversation, which is conducted exclusively in Russian or places mentioned. The only location attribution occurs when the Interlocutor (between 00:16 and 00:21) about one of the alleged Slaves, a “13-year-old from Irkutsk”. Irkutsk is one Russian city on Lake Baikal, near the border with Mongolia and far away from Ukraine. Second video without any reference to Ukraine A second video linked in the post shows an excerpt from one Broadcast by the US broadcaster Fox News Channel from November 26, 2022. It's about it exclusively about the problem of human trafficking and illegal Immigration to the United States across the U.S.-U.S. border Mexico. This video has no connection to Ukraine at all. Human trafficking in the context of the Ukraine war According to the UNODC, the proportion of Ukrainian victims of the global increase increased Human trafficking rose briefly after the Ukraine crisis in 2014 and 2015 almost 5 percent. Now the risk for people from Ukraine is because of the climbed to this level again during the war. This is what the OSCE recorded a spike in online searches immediately after the invasion began looking for Ukrainian women for sex and marriage. (As of: April 3, 2023) ## Links Facebook post with claim (archived post, archived video of streams) Fox News article from November 26, 2022 (archived) Ukrainian broadcaster NTA's earlier online interview with the TikTok host, October 2022 (archived) TikTok host's posts here, here and here (archived here, here and here) Publication of the stamp motif by the Ukrainian Post. April 2022 (archived) DW on the UNODC report, January 2023 (archived) OSCE on human trafficking in the context of the Ukraine war. March 2022 (archived) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was carried out as part of the Facebook/Meta independent program Fact check created. Find detailed information about this program You here. Explanations from Facebook/Meta on how to deal with accounts that provide false information spread, can be found here. If you have any objections or comments regarding the content, please send them with a link to the affected Facebook post to faktencheck@dpa.com. 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Video 1 shows that organ traffickingchild trafficking takes place via TikTok in Ukraine