“Following Priyanka Gandhi’s women power message, visuals of school girls thrashing an eve teaser”
What FACTLY found
The video shared in the post shows a 2018 incident of girl students thrashing eve-teaser inside school premises in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh. The video shared in the post is old and it had nothing to do with the recent ‘Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakta Hu’ campaign launched by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 1 January 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 6 January 2022, 5 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=731637178228183
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.