Pro-Palestine Protest Clip From Norway Shared As One From Columbia University

A journalism student from Columbia University clarified to us that this video is unrelated to their university.

Fact-Check: Pro-Palestine protest video from Norway shared as one from Columbia University.

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A video showing a massive protest in support of Palestine is being shared on social media platforms as one from Columbia University in New York, United States of America (USA).

An archive of the post can be found here. 

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Is this true?: No, the claim is false.

• The video is from Oslo, Norway from 21 March. It was filmed by a photographer named Eyad Al Zaro.

How did we find out?: In one of the videos, we noticed a tag named, "@Eyadalzaro."

Here is a close-up of the tag.

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• We looked for this profile on social media platforms and came across a photographer @eyadalzaro on Instagram.

• We came across the same video on their profile from 21 March with the caption, "We continue every day for Palestine in Norway." This indicated that the video was from Norway.

• We matched the frames of both videos and found similarities.

Here are the similarities between the two. 

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We have reached out to the photographer to get a confirmation and the story will be updated when the response comes.

• To verify further, we tried looking for the location on Google Maps Street View. We matched the red brick building seen in the video which is in Oslo, Norway.

Here is a comparison between the two locations. 

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The WebQoof team also reached out to Arshi Qureshi, a journalism graduate student at Columbia University, who clarified that this video was not from the said university.

Conclusion: The video is from Norway and is being falsely shared as one from Columbia University.

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