Recently, a video of two children circulating on TikTok claims that it was taken recently from Turkey, devastated by the earthquake. The viral claim says like a mother protects her child, the younger sister is protecting her brother, as their parents died in the earthquake in Turkey.
Watch the viral video here and here.
Fact-Check/Verification
With the help of a reverse image search on the keyframe obtained from the viral video, we found the original video posted on 26 November 2022 by a TikTok account named @anelya.495.
Moreover, this TikTok account in the Russian language features multiple videos of the same child.
The video was uploaded on the Internet before the recent earthquake in Turkey.
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Conclusion
In 2022, a video of two children posted by a TikTok account named @anelya.495 has falsely gone viral with the claim that this incident is from Turkey which was hit by an earthquake recently.
Result: False
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