A video featuring vibrant fireworks and celebrations is being circulated with claims that it shows Diwali celebrations in Saudi Arabia in 2024. However, the video is actually from a past Saudi National Day celebration and is not connected to any religious festival.
Sharing the video on X (Formerly Twitter) propagandist account @RealBababanaras wrote, “Diwali celebration in Saudi Arabia. The Arab world is moving towards light from darkness. Mahadev”.
Diwali celebration in Saudi Arabia
— Baba Banaras™ (@RealBababanaras) November 1, 2024
The Arab world is moving towards light from darkness. Mahadev 🙏 pic.twitter.com/60lIYA52B7
Another propaganda account @KreatelyMedia also disseminated the video and wrote, “Arabs are celebrating Diwali, Owaisi is mourning”. (Translated from Hindi)
अरब वाले दिवाली मना रहे है
— Kreately.in (@KreatelyMedia) October 31, 2024
ओवैसी अपना मातम मना रहे है
🤣😂😇
pic.twitter.com/Nmyki62tnt
Several other users, influencers and propagandists have also shared the video and made similar claims. Their posts can be seen here @TufailChaturve, @mainRiniti, @TigerRajaSinggh, @pakistan_untold, @ocjain4.
The truth about the viral video from Saudi Arabia, 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 these visuals were old and unrelated to the Diwali celebration in Saudi Arabia.
To verify the claims made by the users. We performed a reverse image search of some key frames from the viral video using Google Lens. This led us to initial posts (1, 2, 3) containing the visuals. According to the posts, these visuals are from Saudi Arabia’s National Day celebration, September 2024. During research, we also found multiple reports (1, 2, 3) regarding the 94th National Day of Saudi Arabia.
Therefore, it is evident from D-Intent Data’s Fact Check that the video was not related to the Diwali celebration but an old video from Saudi Arabia’s National Day celebration.
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) November 1, 2024
ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT:A video showing vibrant fireworks and celebrations is being shared with claims that it depicts Diwali celebrations in Saudi Arabia in 2024. However, this is actually an old video from Saudi Arabia's National Day celebration (1/2) pic.twitter.com/TONZ0DM3eR
Intent
Influencers are circulating old videos with misleading claims to set their narrative based on religion.
Conclusion
Claim– The video depicts the Diwali celebration in Saudi Arabia.
Fact – The video is related to Saudi Arabia’s National Day celebration. Nothing to do with Dilwali or any religious festival.
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