On August 9, 2021, a video was posted on Facebook by a user named "Loren Bruschi", showing a large group of people clapping.
This Facebook user, in the description of the video, wrote "«FRANCE 07-08-2021 .. TV? Silence! »", claiming that this group of people are in France and that the video was shot on August 8 of this year.
The content in this published video falsely purports to be an event that took place in France, depicting this large group of people protesting against the Green Passport, which will be held by people who have been vaccinated against the Corona virus.
However, after verification by hibrid.info, it turns out that the claim is just a hoax. The video was actually shot in July 2016 in Iceland, on the occasion of the arrival of the Icelandic national football team from that year's European Championship. It shows a large crowd of Icelandic fans in the capital Reykjavik, participating in the reception of their national team.
Video posted on Facebook by a user named "Lorena Bruschi":
https://www.facebook.com/lorena.bruschi.5/posts/300967098490145
Below you can find several videos published on July 4 and 5, 2016, where it becomes clear that this content is about fans of the Icelandic national team, who have been cheering and applauding for their team.
So, the video is not about protests in France against the green passport, as falsely claimed in this post.
The same video was also shared on Facebook by the publisher and conspiracy theorist from Albania, Alfred Cako, falling prey to this deception that this event is supposedly related to the protest in France.
https://www.facebook.com/alfred.cako/posts/4595077917191567
It is true that protests of this nature have been organized in France, but not on a large scale, as shown in the video shot in Iceland. Below you can find a link to the article published in the French online medium “rfi.fr” about protests held on August 7 in several French cities, against the green passport.
Analyze:
The video published on Facebook by user "Lorena Bruschi" was shared with the false claim that the event is related to the protest in France, as a result of the green passport for those vaccinated against the Corona virus.
Albanian conspiracy theorist Alfred Cako has also fallen prey to this deception, sharing the same video with the same claim.
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it was found that this video belongs to fans of the Icelandic national team, which was made in July 2016, and it is considered "manipulation of facts".
Reasoning:
The evaluation as "Manipulation of facts" is given to those media reports that use facts known to be correct, but interpret them in a distorted way. These reports typically use inaccurate information to draw inaccurate conclusions or claims, thereby misdirecting consumers' conclusions of media content in relation to the actual meaning of the facts presented.