A viral video (here, here, and here) on social media allegedly shows King Charles III unveiling a poster of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, branding him a terrorist. It is being claimed that Europe has declared Netanyahu a terrorist, after which this poster was unveiled ‘yesterday’ (22 October 2024). We fact-check this claim through this article.
Claim: Video shows King Charles III unveiling a poster of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declaring him a terrorist.
Fact: This is a digitally altered video. The original video is from May 2024, which shows King Charles unveiling his official portrait. There are no credible reports that Europe has declared Benjamin Netanyahu a terrorist. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
To check the veracity of the viral claim, we performed a reverse image search on a few of the viral video’s keyframes. This search led us to the original version of this video …