Pages and accounts on social media circulated a report claiming that the leader in the Syrian government Osama al-Mawwas died as a result of a heart attack.
The fact-checking team contacted a person close to Osama al-Mawwas, and it emerged that the death was the result of a car accident he had several days earlier, and not due to a heart attack as stated in the circulating posts.
Why is this claim misleading?
An inaccurate account: The posts circulated an inaccurate cause for the death of Osama al-Mawwas by attributing it to a heart attack, whereas the death resulted from a car accident days earlier, placing the incident in a context different from its reality.
