Accounts on social media circulated a video claiming it was recent, showing an Iraqi man chanting "Ya Sahib al-Zaman" inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, alongside sectarian chants.
The fact-checking team ran a digital trace of the circulating clip, including a reverse search of its scenes and tracking older copies across search engines and social platforms, and comparing its publication date with the contexts in which it spread. The tracing showed the clip was previously published in 2024 and was recirculated on different occasions, in different contexts and on different dates, confirming that its current circulation does not reflect the original filming date.
Why is this claim misleading?
Out of temporal context: The clip is genuine but old, dating to 2024, and was recirculated as recent and detached from its original temporal context, suggesting an incident that had just occurred.
