Claim: Video of Afghans rushing into Kabul Airport after Taliban takeover.
Fact-check: 2019 video of people rushing into an American stadium for an NFL game is falsely shared as scenes from Kabul Airport - FACTLY
Verdict: this is a 2019 video from at&t stadium in arlington, texas, usa and not from kabul airport. the people in the video were rushing to get into the at&t stadium hours before an nfl playoff game between dallas cowboys and seattle seahawks. it is true that many people are scrambling to flee afghanistan after the taliban seized back control of the country almost two decades after they were ousted by a us-led coalition. kabul's hamid karzai international airport has been filled with afghans desperate to leave the country due to fear of persecution by the taliban, but the visuals in the post are not from the airport. hence the claim made in the post is false.
Organisation: FACTLY
Author: Abhishek Mandadi
Date published: 2021-08-25T11:28:26