Lies Travel Faster Than the Truth |
On April 21, 2026, Syrian Girl, Maram Susli, @Partisangirl, posted a video on X with a single caption: “Israel shot a little girl in front of her brother while she was collecting water.”¹
The video is not from Israel. The story is not from Israel. It is from Yemen. August 2020.
A different war. Different actors. Different dead.
Within a day: 5 million views. 170,000 likes. 73,000 shares.
X community notes flagged it. The correction is attached to the post. Most people will not see it.
This is the event the video actually shows:
A young girl, Ruweida Saleh, shot by a Houthi sniper while carrying a 20-litre water container home in Taiz, Yemen. Her brother dragged her from........