A video purportedly showing ISIS fighters executing 200 Syrian children is actually a year-old video of the execution of soldiers captured in Syrian fighting, Lead Stories has confirmed. The London's Daily Express published a story Monday headlined: "Utterly horrifying: ISIS militants gun down hundreds of CHILDREN in most sickening video," which is suggested was a new video.
London's Daily Mail also initially reported on the video as new and with children, but the paper's online edition was revised later to say it was a mass execution of Assad soldiers captured by ISIS. The revision did not reveal it was a year-old story.
The Daily Mail and Express.co.uk did not post the video -- only screenshots. Those images, however, match up with a video posted in 2014 and still viewable via LiveLeak.com. Still, the video is disturbing and should only be viewed by those who full realize what they will see.
1. "#IS vid" showing alleged killing of 200 #Syria|n kids actually shows mass execution of #SAA soldiers last year. pic.twitter.com/Cf0kym876W
-- Charlie Winter (@charliewinter) November 9, 2015
5. When @MailOnline reports like this, it is profiteering from #IS killings. There is nothing more to it than that - clickbait.
-- Charlie Winter (@charliewinter) November 9, 2015
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