Video shows protests in Kenya, not mass fugitives with internet sweats in Cambodia
Cambodian authorities arrested thousands of people in a Internet scam in July, but a video showed people running along the highway did not show workers fleeing the center of the scam. The clip was actually filmed during a demonstration in Kenya where protesters fought with police.
“Volks escape from Cambodia’s scam park,” simplify Chinese text on clips shared on red banknotes on July 19.
The 45-second video shows a group of people running on the highway.
Screenshots of the screenshot were captured on July 28, 2025, AFP added red X
Cambodian authorities said 2,000 people surfaced after Hungary’s Prime Minister Mani, Cambodian authorities said after 2,000 people were arrested in a raid that included at least 226 Chinese nationals. order Law enforcement and military restricted the country’s scam center in July (archived link).
Workers in the center often use romance or business pros and cons to deceive fraud users estimated to be $40 billion a year, but many say they are trafficked or tempted under false pretexts.
False claims are also spread elsewhere in Billy.
Some users seem to think the clip was taken in Cambodia.
“They are all victims,” one user wrote.
Another commented: “The Internet Vlad is finally over.”
A reverse image search on Google shows a clip showing the same scene uploaded on Tiktok on June 26 and read the hashtag of “Maandamano” or “Protest” on Swahili, and the date of June 25 (the archived link).
Comparison of screenshots of fake posts (left) and tiktok clips (right) (right)
Protesters share clips after holding RALIt was the day of the year since the massive anti-government demonstrations, eight people were killed and at least 400 were injured (filed) when protesters fought with police.
Google Street View The image also shows that the clip was taken on Thika Road in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya (a link to archive).
Comparison of screenshots of Google Map Street view (left) and Tiktok videos with matching features AFP (right)
AFP has also conducted fact checks on this before video.
Several media outlets in Kenya mentioned that the channel was one of the protest sites In their report, there is Kenya Citizens TV (archived here).
“Daily Ethnicity” has published photos, and you can see the four-lane expressway several times (a archived link).
AFP here makes another false claim about Cambodia’s scam center.
