- Verified accounts on Facebook and Twitter said a clip showed
Afghanistan 's president fleeing Kabul. - Although
Ashraf Ghani did leave on Sunday, the viral video was shot in July, according to outlets. - Facebook and Twitter labeled the video with "partly false" and "out of context" warnings.
A widely circulated video that purported to show Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani fleeing the
The 17-second clip featured Ghani waving to a crowd before climbing up the red steps of a KamAir
Although Ghani did leave Afghanistan for Tajikistan on Sunday, as Insider previously reported, the video was shot in July when he left the country for a two-day trip in Uzbekistan, according to Reuters and other outlets that debunked the video's claim. That was before the Taliban rapidly took over Afghanistan this past week.
-AFP Fact Check (@AFPFactCheck) August 17, 2021
A verified Facebook account with over 100,000 followers, the New York City local outlet Jewish Voice, circulated the video on Sunday with a caption alleging it showed Ghani's departure.
Facebook, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, marked the video with a "partly false information" content warning and linked to a Reuters article.
On Sunday, the Islamic news outlet Tasnim News Agency posted the video with the misattribution to their verified Twitter account, which has over 260,000 followers.
Twitter added a warning label to the tweet that says, "This media is presented out of context."
The platform added the same label to a Sunday tweet of the video by the user @samiabrahim, who has over 400,000 followers. That particular tweet "was labeled based on our synthetic and manipulated media policy, specifically presentation with false context," a Twitter spokesperson told Insider.
The spokesperson also shared a link to a specific Twitter Moment established Tuesday morning that is debunking numerous misleading or contextless posts.