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  • 2020-12-09 (xsd:date)
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  • This is a photo of South Korean soldiers during a 2015 training exercise (en)
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  • A photo of three soldiers in a frozen river has been shared hundreds of times in Facebook posts that claim that it shows Pakistani soldiers defending their country at the Siachen glacier in northern Kashmir, on the border with India. The claim is false: this photo is actually a 2015 Associated Press image that shows South Korean army soldiers at a winter exercise in northeast Pyeongchang county. The misleading photo was published in this Facebook post on December 1, 2020. It has been shared more than 740 times. A screenshot taken on December 8, 2020, of the misleading Facebook post. Caption on the post reads: #Pak #Army❤? The Urdu language text on the top of the photo translates to English as: While you lie in a blanket in light cold, do like these soldiers who guard your frontier while buried in snow in the minus 30 Celsius cold of Siachen (glacier). The Urdu language text on the bottom of the photo translates to English as: We don’t have to do anything, but we can encourage them while sitting in a warm blanket. Long Live Pakistan Army. The Siachen glacier is considered the highest battleground between nuclear-armed South Asian rivals Pakistan and India. An AFP report explains the background of the conflict. The same photo with similar captions -- and some without any captions -- were posted here , here , here and here on Facebook. But the claim is false. A Google reverse image search of this image found that the same photo had been used here and here on Facebook in 2015 and 2016 alongside misleading claims that the people in the image were Canadian special forces soldiers. Further scanning of the reverse image search results found the original photo by the Associated Press published by thehour.com here , CNN here and by nationalpost.com here in early 2015. The caption on the AP Photo published by CNN reads: JANUARY 8 - PYEONGCHANG, SOUTH KOREA: South Korea's Army Special Warfare Command (SWC) soldiers aim their machine guns in a frozen river during a winter exercise. About 200 SWC soldiers participated in this routine drill that lasts for two weeks. AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. A screenshot taken on December 8, 2020 of the Associated Press photo on CNN website. Below is a screenshot comparison of the original photo on CNN website (L) and the photo being shared in in the misleading Facebook posts (R): A screenshot comparison of the original photo on CNN website (L) and the photo being shared in in the misleading Facebook posts (R) (en)
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