Old video recycled to falsely accuse the UN of child trafficking
Recent social media posts claimed that a video showed a mob attacking a United Nations vehicle in Senegal last year for allegedly conveying trafficked children. The claim is false: this is an older video from 2019 filmed in Zimbabwe and shows a bus belonging to a private security firm. At the time, local news outlets reported that one of the firm’s drivers was mistaken for a kidnapper. Moreover, the UN said the claim is “fake news” and that none of its agencies use the type of van seen in the vi
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