ALs old event shared as recent rally is misleading: BanglaFact

ALs old event shared as recent rally is misleading: BanglaFact

20 May, 2025 : BanglaFact, a fact-checking and media research team of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB), has identified a misleading claim where a 2020 protest video is being circulated as a recent Awami League rally. According to BanglaFacts investigation, a video from a 2020 protest was falsely shared on social media as footage of a recent Awami League rally. The team found that the video was not from any recent rally by Dhaka Metropolitan South Awami League. Instead, it was from a 2020 protest organized by the Chhatra League in Capitals Gulistan protesting vandalism of an under-construction sculpture of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Kushtia. On May 18, the old video was falsely live streamed on Facebook with a misleading caption claiming it as a recent event.