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A video of a crowd of people dancing to a Hindi song has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in Facebook and Twitter posts that claim it was filmed in London during the 2019 Cricket World Cup. The claim is false; the video shows a festival in Berlin, Germany. The 18-second video shows people dancing on a sunny tree-lined street, with one of them waving an Indian flag next to a sound system. A Hindi song called Lollipop Lagelu can be heard in the background; here is the song on YouTube. The video has been shared thousands of times in multiple posts including this one published to Facebook on June 12, 2019, and viewed more than 320,000 times since. Below is a screenshot of the misleading post: Screenshot of misleading Facebook post The Facebook post’s Hindi-language caption translates as: See the result of organising the World Cup in London, referring to the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup. Here is the official website of the cricket tournament, which is taking place in various locations in England and Wales, including London, between May 30 and July 14, 2019. Identical clips have been shared elsewhere alongside similar claims, for example here and here on Twitter and here and here on YouTube. Pawan Singh, the singer of Lollipop Lagelu, also posted the video to his verified Instagram account here on June 12, 2019, with the caption: London World Cup during India Australia Match @gururandhawa #Lollypoplagelu #worldcup2019 Singh’s post has been viewed more than 50,000 times. A reverse image search on Google found a similar video published to YouTube here by a channel called Indian Berliner on June 9, 2019 with the title Germans Dancing on Indian Songs. The one minute, 41 second YouTube video, embedded below, has a caption that says: Carnival of Cultures 2019: Carnival of Cultures, or Karneval der Kulturen, is an annual festival in Berlin to celebrate the city’s cultural diversity. This year it was held between June 7 and June 10. Here is a municipal website with information about the festival. It says, in part: Street parade on Sunday, 9 June 2019. Highlight of the Carnival of Cultures is the street parade on Pentecost Sunday in Kreuzberg where thousands of dancers, musicians and artists perform and about half a million people from all over the world line the streets. Below is a screenshot comparison between screenshots of the video in the misleading posts (L) and the clip on YouTube (R), with similar elements highlighted in green: Screenshots of the video in the misleading posts (L) and the clip on YouTube (R) Keyword searches on Youtube to find other videos from an Indian soundsystem at the 2019 Berlin Carnival of Cultures found this clip with the words Berlin Indiawaale in the title. The words Berlin Indiawaale can also be made out on a white banner in the YouTube video embedded above, which corresponds with the clip in the misleading posts. This is highlighted in the screenshot below: Snapshot of the YouTube video AFP also found another video here uploaded by Anja Arif on June 12, 2019 on Facebook with the words Berlin Indiawaale in the caption. That video contains footage of the same truck with an identical banner, where the words can be read more clearly, as shown in the screenshot below: Screenshot of the Facebook video This Facebook page by the name Berlin Indiawaale also exists. It is a Berlin-based cultural group. AFP contacted the page's manager, Tara B Jaan, who confirmed the video in the misleading post shows the Berlin Indiawaale truck on June 9, 2019 during the Carnival of Cultures. In the YouTube video that corresponds with the video in the misleading Facebook post, a store front can be seen, as highlighted in the screenshot below: Snapshot of the YouTube video AFP found the same store, a game shop called Battlefield Berlin , on mapping website Mapillary here . Below is a screenshot of the same store front on Mapillary: Screenshot of the Image found on Mapillary
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