Viral video of burning the Indian (Tricolor) Flag is the latest one?

Fact-Check: Viral video of burning the Indian (Tricolor) Flag is the latest one? Here’s the Truth

Fact Check en Featured Misleading-en

A video has recently surfaced on the social media site X(formerly Twitter) showing the Indian Flag (Tiranga) being burnt by a Young boy. The video has been shared by several Pak-based handles on X with captions like the latest visuals from Kashmir and a special gift to Indians

An account with the username @NavCom24, officially withheld in India due to posting of Inciting content on social media, shared this video and wrote: “#EXCLUSIVE: Latest visuals from Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir. This is the ‘Aukat’ of India and its flag in the occupied valley”

Moreover, another account with the name Kashmir Urdu shared this video on X with the caption: “A special gift from Azad Kashmir to India” (Translated from Urdu)

Not only this, but we also found that numerous users quoted-requoted this video with similar captions.

Source: X

Fact-Check

The DFRAC team investigated the viral video by reverse-searching its Keyframes on Google and found that the video has been available online since 2017. We found this video on YouTube with the date Sept 24, 2017

Source: YouTube

Conclusion

It is evident from DFRAC’s Fact-Check that the viral video has been shared misleadingly on X(Twitter) It does not show the latest visuals from Kashmir. It was uploaded 7 years back.

Analysis: Misleading