Wirz: Dog virus was a fake
For the past two weeks, a video has been causing a sensation online in which a dog destroys the furnishings in a living room while searching for a ball.
As it now turns out, this film was a pre-produced play-in for the show "Wer's glaubt", the quiz show about the most unbelievable claims. In the show, which was developed by Wirz together with Joiz and Mobiliar Insurance, the candidates have to guess, among other things, whether a Youtube clip is a real claim or whether it's all a big fake. The dog virus was a fake.
The film, jointly produced by Wirz and Joiz, actually went viral before the start of the broadcast, was spread across countless blogs and news portals and achieved over 200'000 views within a few days. In the first live broadcast, the hoax was unraveled:
"Who Believes" runs through Nov. 10, every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. live on Joiz and on Joiz.ch/live
