Fact-Check: 2022 video misleadingly shared as recent. Here's the Reality
A video showing demonstrators storming the roads is making rounds on social media platform X(formerly Twitter) with the claim that the Iranian Islamic Regime faces escalating demonstrations, prompting authorities to cut off access to Instagram and WhatsApp
An X account shared this video on Nov 18, 2024 and wrote: “Protests Intensify Across Iran: The Iranian Islamic Regime faces escalating demonstrations, prompting authorities to cut off access to Instagram and WhatsApp”
Fact-check
In the probe, the DFRAC team found that the video was from 2022 and depicted the protests fuelled by the death of Mahasa Amini.
A reverse-image search of the video led us to a similar video available on the Turkish media outlet since 2022.
Moreover, it was also found on the handle of Al Arabiya English dated Sep 22, 2022, with the caption: “Protesters in #Iran’s city of #Amol force security personnel to retreat during anti-regime demonstrations fueled by the death of #MahsaAmini”
Furthermore, we found this video on YouTube on the channel of Bloomberg Quicktake, uploaded on Sep 22, 2022 with the description: “Clashes between Iranian security forces and protesters angry over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody have killed at least nine people since the violence erupted over the weekend, according to a tally Thursday by The Associated Press. Widespread outages of Instagram and WhatsApp, which protesters use to share information about the government’s rolling crackdown on dissent.
Conclusion
It is evident from DFRAC’s fact-check that the viral video has been misleadingly shared on X. It is from 2022 & depicts the protests fuelled by the death of Mahasa Amini.
Analysis: Misleading
