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An old video clip of a satirical news broadcast is falsely being shared as censored clips of the Paris 2024 Olympics broadcast on Iranian TV.

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A video featuring clips (here and here) of multiple sports events in which the bodies of athletes are covered by black rectangular bars and asterisk marks has been doing its rounds on social media. It is claimed that these clips are part of the TV broadcast of the Paris 2024 Olympics in Iran. We fact-check this claim through this article.

Claim: This video shows clips from several sports events from the Paris 2024 Olympics censored and televised on Iranian TV.

Fact: This video clip has existed on the Internet since at least 2013, much before the Paris 2024 Olympics began. It was telecast in a satirical tv show named OnTen in 2023. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.

To check the veracity of the viral claim, we ran our video through the InVid tool to break it down into several keyframes. After this, we performed a reverse image search on various keyframes, which led us (here and here) to a video from August 2013 that contained the same visuals. The video was titled ‘Sports Censorship in Islamic countries.’ 

This makes it clear that the video has nothing to do with the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympics. Through a further search, we learned that AFP fact check found the source for this clip, which is a satirical news show named ‘OnTen.’  

These clips are featured in the 51st and 57th episodes of this show. They uploaded it to their official verified YouTube channel, ‘TheONETV,’ in July and August of 2013 (here and here).

Additionally, we searched the internet with relevant keywords to see if there were any news reports on censored broadcasts of the Paris 2024 Olympics in Iran. However, except for a few old articles (here and here) addressing this issue, we could not find any recent reports about Iran broadcasting a censored version of the Paris 2024 Olympics.

To sum up, an old satirical news clip is now being falsely shared as the censored broadcast of the Paris 2024 Olympics in Iran. 

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