“Video of a burqa-clad woman kidnapping a boy in India”
What FACTLY found
The video shared in the post shows a scripted drama filmed by four teenagers in Egypt. Egypt’s Ministry of Internal Affairs clarified that the video is fake and was created with a motive of achieving high financial return by increasing the viewership on social networking sites. This video does not show a real incident and it had nothing to do with India
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 5 July 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 7 July 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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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.