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Journalists, activists, and news pages on the social networking site “Facebook” circulated pictures of a gunman tearing up a picture of Bashar al-Assad. However, the search results showed that the image was extracted from a video posted on YouTube in 2013.

Journalists, activists, and news pages on the social networking site “Facebook” circulated pictures of a gunman tearing up a picture of Bashar al-Assad. However, the search results showed that the image was extracted from a video posted on YouTube in 2013.


The gunman who tore up Assad's picture in Qamishli did that three years ago.

The gunman who tore up Assad's picture in Qamishli did that three years ago.

Ahmad Primo Ahmad Primo   Saturday 23rd April 2016

Ahmad Primo Ahmad Primo   Saturday 23rd April 2016

Journalists, activists, and news pages on "Facebook", including the page of the Syrian journalist, "Musa al-Omar", circulated pictures of a gunman tearing up a picture of Bashar al-Assad.

Verify and search for the source of the aforementioned image, and it turns out that the image has been excerpted from a video posted on YouTube since 2013.

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