An old video is falsely shared as ‘Shaheen Bagh paid-protestors fought among each other over money’ - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
January 23, 2020
A video is being widely shared on social media with a claim that it shows Shaheen Bagh paid-protestors fighting with each other over sharing of money. Let’s analyze the claim made in the post.
Shaheen Bagh paid-protestors fighting with each other over sharing of money.
Fact: At Shaheen Bagh, women are protesting against CAA since 15th December 2019. But, the video in the post is found to exist on the internet at least since January 2019. So, the video is at least a year-old and has no connection with the ongoing protests at Shaheen Bagh. Hence, the claim is FALSE.
From the article of ‘Indian Express’, it can be found that women are holding a sit-in protest at Shaheen Bagh since 15th December 2019 against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
On subjecting the screenshots of the video to Google reverse image search technique, the same video was obtained in the search results. The video has the timestamp – ‘January 12, 2019’ and the title as ‘लखनऊ के चौक बाजार में आपस में गाड़ी टकराने से महिलाओं में हुई हाथापाई’. No additional information was found regarding the video. But, as the video is on the internet at least since January 2019, it can be ascertained that the video is in no way related to the ongoing Shaheen Bagh protests.
To conclude, an old video falsely shared as ‘Shaheen Bagh paid protestors fought among each other over money’.
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