Accounts on social media circulated a video claiming it documents residents of the city of Deir Hafer cutting the road and draining mazut from tankers.
The "Kashaf" team checked the circulating video through a digital trace that included splitting it into still frames and running a reverse search on them, and found that it is old and goes back to a traffic accident involving an oil tanker on the M4 international road near the town of Tell Tamer in the Al-Hasakah countryside, on 23/09/2026.
Why is the news misleading?
Out of its original time and place context: An old video of a traffic accident involving an oil tanker near the town of Tell Tamer in the Al-Hasakah countryside was recirculated and attributed to a different incident in the city of Deir Hafer, taking it out of its original time and place context.
