Claim
Video Claim: A Whole Family Die After Eating Anny Sardine.
Rating Justification
Local Voices Liberia iVerify team researched a viral video with claim that those in the video are dead after eating a certain packaged sardines. The sardines is alleged to be “Anny Sardine”.
Our verification of the video show that the claim is false.
We reached this conclusion by first conducting multiple reverse image searches of the video to establish when and where did the video appear online. We found many other versions of the same video shared to different social media platforms.
Further Google search of the claim found a fact check Report written by AFP which states that there are multiple claims that the incident happened in Benni while others claimed that the incident happened in Democratic Republic of Congo.
However, according to the AFP Report, the video of the people believed to be dead was traced to the town of Koumassi in Côte d’Ivoire. The Report quotes a local journalist as saying that the poster of the viral video “are still surfing on false information that circulated at the end of 2022 about the sardine Anny in the DRC “.
Conclusion
Based on these facts reported by AFP, the message in the viral video that a family die after eating Anny sardine is false and out of context. The short video of people lying on the floor, according to AFP, is from an incident that happened in Cote d’Ivoire which is not link to the Anny sardine.
False
