A video showing onions with stones has been widely circulated with misleading claims suggesting that Bangladeshi extremists boycotted Indian products and imported onions from Pakistan, which allegedly contained stones. However, D-Intent Data has found that this video is old and does not pertain to the current political crisis in Bangladesh.
Sharing the video on X (Formerly Twitter) propagandist account @ajaychauhan41 wrote. “Bangladesh, which is rapidly moving towards fundamentalism, has decided to boycott Indian products and import onions from Pakistan! Because all Muslims are brothers of each other. Now stones are also found mixed with onions in every bag imported from Pakistan!”. (Translated from Hindi)
Another user @k36077 has also shared the video and wrote. This Bangladesh of fanatical Muslims recently boycotted India and was importing onions from Pakistan! Because all Muslims are brothers to each other. Now every bag imported gets 1⅕ stone instead of onion!
The truth about the viral video, Fact Check
As soon as the posts containing the video and claims came to our notice. Subsequently, we conducted research and analysis of the video and found that the video was not recent, but an old video and doesn’t pertain to the ongoing political crisis in Bangladesh and Bangladesh’s relations with India.
To verify the claims made by the users. We performed a reverse image search of some key frames from the viral video on Google Lens. This led us to media reports containing the same visuals uploaded in November 2020. According to the media reports. Importers in Khatunganj, Chittagong, bring onions worth crores of rupees from various countries, such as Egypt and Turkey. However, upon opening the bags, they found stones mixed in with the onions. During research, we also found that trade and commerce between India and Bangladesh have resumed.
Therefore, it is evident from D-Intent Data’s Fact Check that the video of Onions mixed with stones was not recent but an old incident and not related to the Pakistan-Bangladesh trade.
Intent
Influencers and propagandists are circulating old videos from Bangladesh with misleading claims to set their narrative over the ongoing unrest in Bangladesh.
Conclusion
Claim– Bangladesh boycotted Indian products and imported onions from Pakistan which allegedly contained stones.
Fact– The video is not recent but an old video from 2020, and the onions were imported from Egypt and Turkey.
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