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Fact-Check: Dramatized video of women getting abducted shared with a false claim

December 2, 2021

A video is being shared online showing a woman getting abducted on the street by a man. The video seems like it a CCTV footage and being shared online with a claim that women of India must be protected at all cost.

Video shared on facebook with the same claims

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However, after reverse searching the claim, we found that the video was posted by Sajjanna Galrani, a verified account on Facebook who regularly posts dramatized videos to create awareness.

Similar videos shared by Galrani

Since the video is dramatized and not a real incident, this claim is false.

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Digital Forensics, Research and Analytics Centre (DFRAC) is a non-partisan and independent media organisation which focuses on fact-checking and identifying hate speech. With the popularisation of the internet came the challenge of information overload and often times, our feeds are overpopulated with conflicting, incendiary and false information which is increasingly becoming difficult to ignore and not believe in

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