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A video has been making the rounds on social media with the claim that it shows a woman being thrown out of a car in Haryana's Faridabad after she was sexually assaulted for three hours.
What did the video show?: The 20-second-long clip shows a woman falling out of a moving car onto the pavement.
How did we find out the truth?: We divided the video into multiple screenshots and conducted a reverse image search on some of them using Google Lens. This led us to multiple Instagram accounts based in Brazil sharing the same video.
Gazeta do Amapá, a local news outlet covering news in the state of Amapá, shared the video reporting that the woman was thrown out of a car in the Pavocal neighbourhood, in Macapá, Brazil.
The screenshot shows the report shared by Gazeta do Amapá
(Source:Gazeta do Amapá/Screenshot)
We conducted a keyword search using relevant Portuguese words and found another digital news portal, Portal 1norte, sharing the same video.
The report also states that the woman fell from a moving car in the Pavocal neighbourhood, in the North Zone of Macapa, Brazil.
Additionally, no such report was found about such an incident in Faridabad.
The screenshot shows the report shared by Portal 1norte.
(Source:Portal 1norte/Screenshot)
Conclusion: A video of a woman falling out of a car in Macapá, Brazil, is being circulated with the false claim that it shows a woman being thrown out of a car in Faridabad.
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