Fact check: Old video shared as recent as Cambodia attacking Thailand

An old video from 2022, being shared as recent, claiming Cambodia is attacking Thailand. The viral claim is misleading.

Old video shared as recent
Screenshot of an old video from 2022 being shared as recent associated with recent Cambodia and Thailand conflict. (PC: X)

Lighthouse Journalism came across a video being widely shared on social media platforms. The video that showed rockets being fired was claimed to be from Cambodia of RM-70 rockets being fired at Thailand.

During the investigation, we found that the video was from 2022, supposedly related to the Ukraine-Russia conflict. The viral claim is misleading.

Claim:

X user NOOR AL HAQ NEWS shared the viral video with a misleading claim.

Other users are also sharing the same video with the misleading claim.

Investigation:

We began the investigation by uploading the video to the InVid tool and conducting a reverse image search on the keyframes obtained from it.

We found that the video was being shared widely on the internet as the Iran-Israel conflict, the India-Pakistan conflict, and also as the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

We found the video on TikTok, which was posted in 2022, making it the oldest upload.

A hashtag used in the video on TikTok was Donbas, which is a region in Ukraine.

Lighthouse Journalism was not able to verify whether this video was really from the Russia-Ukraine war; however, the video was from 2022 and not recent, showing Cambodia attacking Thailand.

Conclusion: An old video from 2022, being shared as recent, claiming Cambodia is attacking Thailand. The viral claim is misleading.