A video was widely shared on social media from India showing visuals of flood in Karachi, Pakistan. The caption reads as: “Terrible flood situation in Pakistan!! God have mercy.”

Debunked Source

https://www.facebook.com/abhram.abhi.7/videos/1213391439233697

https://www.facebook.com/prty.roy.31508/videos/393097912937963

Fact-check

In order to verify the claim, we extracted keyframes performed a reverse image search of the shared video.

Reverse image search revealed that the video is from Japan tsunami in November 03, 2011.

Source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0rWPm9f3GQ

Rating

False Context/ Misleading

Conclusion

Our factcheck confirmed that viral video is not a video of recent floods in Pakistan. Old video of the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011 was reshared with a false context to mislead people.

ABCDE Framework-Based Analysis

Actor	Independent social media accounts from India are involved in circulating disinformation.
Behavior	An old video from Japan when it was hit by tsunami was associated with recent floods in Pakistan.
Content	Social Media posts.
Degree	No synthetic means were used to make content viral. The content was mainly shared on Facebook.
Effect	The shared video is being circulated to mislead the general public about floods in Pakistan and create chaos.