Pages and accounts on social media circulated a video whose publishers claimed it was recent, showing an Iraqi soldier talking about pursuing members of the Jolani organization and calling for entry into Syrian territory.
The fact-checking team traced the video by breaking it down into still frames and running reverse image searches on them, alongside examining the dates of the circulating copies. The tracing showed that the video dates back to January 2026 and had previously been published and recirculated on different occasions and in different contexts.
Why is this claim misleading?
Out of temporal context: The claim rested on an old video dating back to January 2026 that had already circulated on different occasions and in different contexts, and was then presented as recent, suggesting that what it contains was said at the present time.
