Video of Argentines celebrating 2022 FIFA World Cup win shared as visuals from a Jai Bhim rally - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
January 3, 2023
A video is being shared on social media claiming it as visuals of a huge crowd gathered for a Jai Bhim rally. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video showing a massive crowd gathered for a Jai Bhim rally.
Fact: The video shows the visuals of Argentines celebrating the FIFA World Cup win at the historic monument of Obelisk in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The video does not show any visuals from a Jai Bhim rally. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On observing the video carefully, one could see the watermark ‘alepetra_’ at the bottom left of the video. When we searched for this video using relevant keywords on the internet, a video with similar visuals was found published on the Instagram page ‘alepetra_’. This Instagram user published this video on 19 December 2022, describing it as the visuals of Argentines celebrating the FIFA World cup win at the historic monument of Obelisk in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
An extended version of the video published by this Instagram user shows people holding Argentina national flags and the banners of Argentina’s late legendary Football player Diego Maradona. Several sports and news websites published the same video describing it as the visuals of Argentina fans celebrating their Football team winning the FIFA World Cup 2022. They can be seen here and here. Argentina won the FIFA World Cup 2022 after defeating France on penalties 4-2 on 18 December 2022.
A few more videos showing Argentines celebrating the World Cup win at Obelisk de Buenos Aires can be seen here, here and here.
To sum it up, video of Argentines celebrating 2022 FIFA World Cup win is shared as visuals from a Jai Bhim rally.