“This video shows school children identifying the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as Adolf Hitler in a TV quiz show.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 8 Oct 2024.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
This is an edited video. In the original video, which is an episode of the Jamaican TV show Junior Schools Challenge Quiz, the person who appears on the screen is Hollywood actor Jason Statham, not Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 8 October 2024. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 10 October 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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