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On 12 March 2017, the Facebook group Animal Rights Warriors shared a video purportedly showing an injured monkey in a cage along with a link to a petition asking L'Oreal to stop testing cosmetics on animals: That Facebook post, as well as the linked petition, has since been deleted. The video in question did not show a monkey that had been injured at a cosmetics testing facility. L'Oreal, a company that has been the subject of several false animal testing rumors, stopped testing their products on animals in 1989 and hasn't tested any individual ingredients on animals since 2013: The company specifically addressed the video in question when a copy of it was posted to YouTube: Although the video does not depict an animal that was harmed through testing at L'Oreal (or any other cosmetics company facility), it does unfortunately document a terribly injured animal. The monkey, who was named Fighter, was severely injured when it was electrocuted by a high voltage tower in the Mulund Colony of Mumbai, India. The animal was rescued and treated by the Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare (RAWW): Sharma posted several photographs and videos of Fighter as the monkey recovered from his injuries, noting on 15 February 2017 that Sharma was ready to be released back into his original environment soon:
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