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  • 2020-07-20 (xsd:date)
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  • This footage has circulated in media reports about an assault in Malaysia in 2016 (en)
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  • Footage of an assault has been shared repeatedly in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter alongside a claim it shows a Chinese engineer beating a Pakistani driver for falsifying petrol bills in the Pakistani city of Karachi. The claim is false; the video has circulated since at least 2016 in reports about an assault in Malaysia; the men in the footage can be heard speaking Malay and wearing a shirt that bears the logo of a Malaysian electoral campaign. The video was published on Facebook here on June 28, 2020. It has been viewed more than 220 times. The 30-second clip shows a man beating another man with a stick, while a third man looks on. The post’s caption reads: #CPEC :Chinese Engineer in Karachi caught on video beating #Pakistani driver for submitting fake petrol bill. Engineer from Power China Gansu Energy Company came to #Pakistan under CPEC. CPEC is an acronym for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a major energy and infrastructure investment project between the two countries. A screenshot taken on July 16, 2020, of the misleading Facebook post The video was also shared alongside a similar claim on Facebook here , here , here and here and on Twitter here and here . The claim is false. The same footage was published by The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, here on November 29, 2016. The report bears a Kuala Lumpur dateline and is headlined: Police seek info on violent caning shown in viral video. A closer analysis of the video reveals the men are speaking Malay, the official language of Malaysia. One of the men is seen wearing a shirt that features the logo of Global Bersih 5 , a campaign for fair elections that was organised in Malaysia in 2016. The video also circulated in 2016 on Malaysian Facebook pages. The footage was published here in a post that has been viewed 490,000 times and shared 10,000 times. The Malay-language post translates to English as: Let’s viral make this case explode!!! Think the country is lawless, whipping people happily??? #PDRM. PDRM is an acronym for the Royal Malaysia Police . Below is a screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading Facebook post (L) and the 2016 video (R): A screenshot comparison of the video in the misleading Facebook post (L) and the 2016 video (R) (en)
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