“Video of Afghans rushing into Kabul Airport after Taliban takeover”
What FACTLY found
This is a 2019 video from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, USA and not from Kabul Airport. The people in the video were rushing to get into the AT&T stadium hours before an NFL playoff game between Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks. It is true that many people are scrambling to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban seized back control of the country almost two decades after they were ousted by a US-led coalition. Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport has been filled with Afghans desperat...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 16 August 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 25 August 2021, 9 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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