A video shared on Facebook spread the lie that there will be a 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Turkey in 2025. French news agency AFP took action to investigate these claims, but the fake content was shared thousands of times on social media, especially TikTok. Users wrote “Pray for Turkey”.
The French news agency AFP has taken action to investigate these claims.
AFP Fact Check found that the video includes images of a storm that struck Dubai in January 2023 and a doctored image of a mosque in Gaza from the same year and month.
The video, published on Facebook, includes text that says “Pray for Turkey in 2025” and “7.9 earthquake.”
The clip is a compilation of images in two parts.
In the first, people are seen in front of buildings; one man takes a photo with his mobile phone while another kneels and raises his hands in prayer.
The second shows a cloud of praying hands above a mosque.
AFP Fact Check investigated the key frames in the video. The search results revealed that the clip consists of two separate sections of footage.
The first section, which shows a man praying in front of a large building with tinted windows, comes from a 17-second TikTok video posted in January 2023. However, the video title does not mention the location.
