Greek Director Eleni Vlassi was shooting a historical documentary on a beach in Crete when, unknowingly, she found herself accused of staging a drowning of migrants by dozens of websites, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts u.afp.com/o8Ry
It all began with a video narrated by a Czech-speaking man. A dozen people – including veiled women – enter the water. Five of them seem to simulate a drowning 
On the beach, three people stand around a camera on a tripod which is pointed toward the group in the water
The Czech-speaking man is categorical: this is a television crew in the process of staging a drowning of migrants
His video spread quickly in the Czech Republic, then across Europe and even to some US Twitter accounts: "Does the media every tell us anything that is true?" this tweet reads
Within three weeks, dozens of websites, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts have published these images, implying that they show journalists engaged in manipulation
AFP's @RemiBanet found the location of the filming, the man who filmed the accusatory video and two members of the implicated film crew
@RemiBanet It turns out they were actually filming a documentary about the exodus of the Greeks from Asia Minor in 1922. You can see the group in the water in this trailer for the documentary u.afp.com/o8Ry
