FALSE: This video doesn’t show unloading of trucks at Puntland, Somalia

The footage has been online since 2023, with one of the scenes recorded at a port in Brazil.

This post on X (formerly Twitter) with a video claiming to show how vehicles are unloaded at Puntland Somalia is FALSE.

The text accompanying the video reads: “Great loss, look at how the vehicles unloaded state of Puntland port (sic).”

The 33-second video shows two scenes at a port where a crane is lifting trucks. During the process, the cables holding the trucks snap, causing them to fall, in both scenes.

But does the claim depict scenes at a port in Puntland?

PesaCheck performed a Google reverse image search on the video keyframes from the first scene. The results, as shown here and here, indicate that the video of the truck falling from a crane in the first scene was captured during unloading at the Port of São Francisco do Sul in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

The video first appeared online on 18 January 2023, and various media outlets reported on the incident.

A Google reverse image search of the truck in the second scene from the 25-second mark established that the clip has been online since 2023. The video has been published here, here, and here. However, none of the results indicate where the unloading of the second truck was recorded.

A keyword search of the claim on the video returns no credible information about a failed crane at a port in Puntland Somalia.

PesaCheck has looked into a post on X with a video claiming to show how vehicles are unloaded at Puntland port and found it to be FALSE.

This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Yussufmahat Abdi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya and chief copy editor Stephen Ndegwa.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.

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