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Does video footage made after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan show them using anti-aircraft weaponry?

By Marlo Lee
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The Facebook page Military Videos recently published a post about a video with the comment, "Anti-aircraft weapons and drones are also suspected to have fallen to the Afghan Taliban."

Some Indian news broadcasts that saw the footage claimed that the Pakistani air force attacked the Panjshir valley.

In fact, the video came from the video game Arma 3.

The video in the Facebook post ends with a message in Japanese that roughly translates to: 

This video is fiction. The names of the people and groups that appear are fictitious and have nothing to do with real things.

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Bohemia Interactive Arma 3
PC Gamer Indian news channel uses Arma 3 gameplay footage to claim Pakistan bombed Afghanistan
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Lead Stories is a fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015. It scouts for trending stories, images, videos and posts that contain false information in order to fact check them as quickly as possible. It actively monitors the fake-news ecosystem and doesn’t wait for reader tips or reports before getting started on a story.
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Fact briefs are short, credibly sourced summaries that offer “yes/no” answers in response to claims found online. They rely on publicly available, often primary source data and documents. Fact briefs are created by contributors to Gigafact —a nonprofit project looking to expand participation in fact-checking and protect the democratic process. See all fact briefs here.