Pages on social media circulated video clips whose publishers claimed they show Khaled al-Droubi, brother of Latifa al-Droubi, the wife of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, displaying his luxury cars and weapons.
The fact-checking team followed up on the circulating claim and contacted a well-informed source at the presidential palace to verify its content, and the source denied that what is being circulated is accurate. Based on the verification, the claim is classified as misleading because the information accompanying the circulating content is not accurate.
Why is this claim misleading?
An error in identity attribution: The claim relied on attributing circulating clips to a person connected to the Syrian presidency, which a well-informed source at the presidential palace denied, in order to suggest scenes of weapons and wealth being flaunted around the presidency.
