A video shows a theme park ride where riders are lifted to a height and swung from cables, before being dropped back down to earth.
The swing part of the ride is not real, and the ride does not extend to the same height as shown in the video.
A video showing a supposed theme park ride which suspends riders from a great height on swings, and then spins them around rapidly in the air, has been shared over 40,000 times on social media.
However, the video is an edited version of a real ride—called Gyro Drop—at Lotte World in Seoul, South Korea. The real Gyro Drop ride simply lifts riders to a height while rotating slowly, and then drops them back down rapidly. It does not include swings or rise to the same height as shown in the video.
The speed with which the ride extends upwards is a notable giveaway to the video being edited as it appears to extend to a huge height in a matter of seconds.
It is unclear where the edited video came from, but appears to have first circulated social media in mid-June 2019.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false as the video is edited to show the ride operating in a way that it does not in reality.
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