A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook and YouTube alongside a claim it shows crowds celebrating the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday. The claim is false; the video has circulated since at least 2016 in posts about the birthday celebration of Sufi master Ibrahim Niass in Nigeria.
"The largest celebration of Prophet Mohammed’s birthday in Africa. Attended by around 50 million people," the Indonesian-language caption of the post reads.Screenshot of the misleading post, taken on November 7, 2021Below is screenshot comparison between video in the misleading post and the 2016 clip from YouTube .
Screenshot comparison between the video in the misleading post and the 2016 clip from YouTube on the celebration in an article from May 21, 2016, headlined:"Nigeria: More than 5 million Baye Niass Talibe's take a stadium by storm."
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