Listen to this articleA video was circulated on social media claiming personals of Pakistan Army entering house of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supporter and torturing a women.
Debunked Source:
Fact Check:
In order to check the claim we analysed keyframes and performed a reverse image search on various search engines.
Through the utilization of reverse imaging techniques it was determined that the shared video is from Mumtazabad, Pakistan and dates back to July, 2019 amid police raid on property dispute.
Source:
https://www.geo.tv/latest/242618-sho-suspended-after-multan-police-officers-slap-drag-women
Rating
False Context/Misleading
Conclusion
Our research confirmed that an old video with altered and erroneous context was reshared to propagate false & defamatory claims against state security forces.
ABCDE Framework-Based Analysis
| Actor | PTI Supporters |
| Behavior | Old video from Mumtazabad shared as recent incident relating it to PTI and Pakistan Armed Forces. |
| Content | Video |
| Degree | The targeted audience of the post was general public. The disinformation was spread on Twitter and Facebook mainly. |
| Effect | The video was shared with a political bias to defame security forces amid claims of involvement of military in politics. |
