Pages on social media circulated a video claiming to document threats made by gunmen against Shia residents in the Qusayr countryside, linking it to ongoing events.
The fact-checking team traced the circulating clip by breaking it into still frames and running a reverse image search on the main scenes, and found that it had already been published on 20 July 2025, confirming it is not recent and was recirculated out of its true temporal context alongside a claim implying a connection to current developments.
Why is this claim misleading?
Out of temporal context: The claim relied on reposting archival footage from July 2025 and presenting it as recent, to imply that it documents present-day threats tied to current developments.
