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Sep 30, 2022 17 tweets 23 min read Read on X
#Iran has been witnessing nationwide protests after the death of #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی But a severe internet shutdown has muted the circulation of protest videos paving the way for misinformation/ #fakenews. Compiling thread of #FactCheck #IranProtests2022 #MehsaAmini
Claim: This is the video that shows #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی being arrested by the Iran moral police #FakeNews

#FactCheck: This is a different clip; the footage is of another Iranian woman arrested in Tehran in May 2022. #MehsaAmini
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Claim: Video shows #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی being arrested by Iran moral police #FakeNews

#FactCheck This is a different video; which is on social media since at least October 2021, eleve months before Amini's arrest
#MehsaAmini


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Claim: #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی and her brother burning The Quran
#FakeNews

#FactCheck: This is an old video online since at least 2019, and the woman looks very different from #MehsaAmini
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Claim: Iranian father crying & dancing at her daughter's funeral after she was killed by police for not wearing hijab #FakeNews

#FactCheck Video from Azerbaijani web series Ata ocağı in 2018. Scene begins at 19m 5s
#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #MehsaAmini Image
Claim: Video of a protest in Iran where a woman is cutting her hair #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #MehsaAmini

#FakeNews

#FactCheck This protest took place in front of the Consulate General on Bebelallee (Winterhude) in Hamburg, Germany
mopo.de/hamburg/xxx-de… Image
Claim: Khamenei statue set on fire in Mashhad #FakeNews

#FactCheck: Statue of late Iranian scholar & philosopher Morteza Motahhari; there are no Khamenei statues in Iran
rb.gy/alyaoy

Moalem sq, Mashhad rb.gy/nkcwri

#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #MehsaAmini Image
Claim: Iranian woman tying her hair became a symbol of courage is #HadithNajafi who was killed in #IranProtests #FakeNews

#FactCheck: She is not Najafi, woman spoke to BBC in a video call to deny claim archive.md/1iryv

#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #MehsaAmini #HadisNajafi Image
Claim: Photo of Iranian woman #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی has been featured by America's Time Magazine as Person of the Year #FakeNews

#FactCheck: This is a doctored image; TIME has not featured #MehsaAmini on her cover page until now.

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Video shared during protests in Iran after the death of #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی claims that police shot a citizen in Karaj #FakeNews

#FactCheck: This is from almost a year ago, 2021, and unrelated to #IranProtests

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Video shows clashes between Iranian police and locals as #Iran witnessed nationwide protests after the death of #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی
#FakeNews

#FactCheck: Old video published on an Iranian news website on March 1, 2016
#MehsaAmini
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Photo shows that Iranian women hoisted chopped hair on a stick during the nationwide protests after the death of #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی
#FakeNews

#FactCheck: Artwork created in 2016 by Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt

e-flux.com/announcements/…
edithdekyndt.be/wp-content/upl…
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Iranian woman against police in Iran during #IranProtests sparked by the death of #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی
#FakeNews

#FactCheck: Scene from Iranian film the Golden Collars قلاده های طلا
imdb.com/title/tt233970…

Photo: archive.md/9Z4R4

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