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.
