As the news spread across the world, there were videos going viral in a bid to substantiate these claims. According to the article, these are old videos that captured incidents that happened long before the coronavirus pandemic. In one of the videos, a group is seen beating up a black man with an iron bar. When France 24 double checked the video through a search using InVid, they found that the same video was posted few years back. However, when France 24 ran the video through a search using InVid, they pulled up posts of the same video posted in early November 2018.

Source: Front Page Africa May 10, 2020 09:56 UTC