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FACTLYWar & conflict

Scenes of protesters firing machine guns during recent clashes in Manipur

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a video circulated as footage of people firing machine guns during the recent violence in Manipur. The review’s central finding is that the footage predates those clashes: it says the same video had circulated online since at least 2019, so it could not depict the conflict that began years later. The review therefore concludes that the video was falsely linked to the Manipur events. To trace the footage, the investigators used reverse image search on keyframes extracted from the circulating video. They found earlier posts on Facebook and Instagram accounts associated with guns and gaming. This evidence supports the finding that the video was already online in 2019; the excerpt does not, however, establish where or when the footage was originally recorded, or whether it shows a real incident or gameplay. The review places the Manipur violence in the context of protests over Scheduled Tribe status for the Meitei community. It says protests escalated on May 3 after a High Court direction concerning a 10-year-old recommendation, and that violence followed a tribal solidarity rally opposing the proposed status. That chronology is consistent with the review’s distinction between the recent clashes and footage it found circulating years earlier. The article also says it had contacted earlier uploaders to seek more information, so the video’s underlying origin was not resolved in the supplied excerpt.

Fact CrescendoWar & conflict

लूचिस्तान ने 1965 की भारत–पाकिस्तान की लड़ाई में भारत का साथ दिया था, भारत से 1965 की लड़ाई हारने के बाद पाकिस्तान की फौज ने बलोचिस्तान के लोगों पर अत्याचार करने शुरू कर दिए

Publisher’s rating: False