A video showing clashes between protesters and police agents is being widely shared on social media as alleged proof of a wave of recent protests in the United Kingdom. Posts associate the images with a supposed stabbing of a girl by an asylum seeker, presenting the episode as another example of growing popular discontent.
SIC Verifica investigated the veracity of this story and analyzed the images circulating on social media. The article questions whether the narrative accompanying the video corresponds to what actually happened.
The video shows clashes between crowds and security forces, but SIC Verifica suggests that the connection made between these images and the alleged stabbing of the girl may not be well-founded.
The publication serves as an alert to the disinformation spread on social media, where videos of real events are frequently reused to illustrate fictional narratives or taken out of their original context.
