A video claiming to show a hate attack on Chinese Americans in California is widely circulated in China and other Asian countries. However, it was verified that the video was actually a gang riot that occurred in an Ecuadorian prison in February this year.
Beginning on April 26, the video started circulating on multiple social media platforms in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, such as WeChat, Line, and Facebook. The explanatory text accompanying the violent and bloody footage, written in Chinese, claimed that it was a racist attack targeting Chinese Americans in California.
