Use Fact-Checking Tools

The video opens with a purple background displaying the white text, ‘USE.’ This transitions into a more detailed graphic featuring the words ‘USE FACT CHECKING TOOLS’ in bold white letters on a purple background. A cartoon magnifying glass, with a gray handle, is shown; the lens displays a green circle with a white checkmark. Below this, ‘Media Smarts’ is displayed.

Next, we’re shown a Facebook page on a computer screen, and we see a post by Bhaskar Sharma, dated September 2nd at 12:44 AM, reading, ‘This is epic! KP government in Pakistan left the Cat filter on during FB live…’ followed by a photo of several men at a table with one man wearing a cat filter on his face. Below is another post from Twitter by Naila Inayat, with the text, ‘You can’t beat this! Khyber Pakhtunkhwa govt’s live presser on.’

The video then transitions to a white screen with the URL ‘bit.ly/fact-search’ in the address bar. Keywords, ‘pakistani cat filter,’ are entered into the search bar, and search results pop up, leading to a fact-checking site called Snopes.com. The specific article highlighted is titled ‘Cat Filter Goof Leaves Pakistanis Scratching Their Whiskers.’