A video shows King Charles III unveiling a poster of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling him a “terrorist”.
Not true. The original video shows the King unveiling his first official portrait since the coronation. This has been digitally altered to include a fake poster of Mr Netanyahu.
A video showing King Charles III unveiling a poster labelling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a terrorist and calling for his immediate arrest has been edited.
It has been shared several times on Facebook and YouTube with the caption: “*Europe declared Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu an international terrorist. A big poster of this was unveiled yesterday.*”
Using reverse image search Full Fact found the original video actually shows the King revealing his first official portrait since his coronation by artist Jonathan Yeo. It is unrelated to Mr Netanyahu or events in the Middle East. The image of the Israeli Prime Minister has been edited on top of the King’s portrait and can be seen shifting slightly as the camera moves.
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This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as altered because the video has been edited to include a fake poster calling Benjamin Netanyahu a terrorist. The original video shows the King revealing his first official portrait since the coronation.
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