FACT CHECK: Video of Mass Killing Falsely Linked to Recent Attacks in Nigeria

‎An X user, Senso di giustizia (@sdigiustizia), posted a graphic video claiming it showed Fulani militias recently invading and killing people in a Nigerian community. The post, which did not specify the location of the alleged attack, carried the caption: ‎”ISLAMIST FURY KNOWS NO TRUCE IN NIGERIA. The vote was not enough to protect them: @PeterObi did not succeed. Divide Nigeria now and recognize the independence of Biafra to save innocent lives.”

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‎As of the time of this fact-check, the post made on June 21, 2026had garnered about 1.2 million views, 24,000 likes, 10,000 bookmarks and 4,900 reposts.

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‎The same video was also shared by other social media users, including Daniel Somtochukwu (@Somtolism7), who suggested it showed victims of violence in Nigeria and called for justice for those killed.

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‎Findings

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‎Daily Trust subjected the claim and accompanying video to verification using Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) tools.

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‎Several keyframes were extracted from the footage using InVID, a video verification tool. The extracted frames were then subjected to reverse image searches using Google Lens and other search methods.

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‎The investigation found that the video is not connected to any recent attack in Nigeria. ‎Search results traced the footage to earlier online posts predating the viral claim. An earlier version of the video appeared on June 13, 2025, on a website that described the footage as showing people killed during an armed attack. The same video was also shared by another X user, @chinanu97382081, on November 7, 2025, with a different claim that it depicted violence in Nigeria.

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‎Further searches located another version of the footage posted on May 11, 2026, by a military-focused video blogger, Sham Lions_EL. The video carried a Chinese-language caption that read:

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‎”JNIM成员在社交媒体上发视频，展示他们在4月25日马里境内的大规模袭击行动中处决大量平民.”

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‎Using Google Translate, the caption was translated as:

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‎”JNIM members posted videos on social media showing their execution of a large number of civilians during a massive attack in Mali on April 25.”

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‎The findings indicate that the footage had circulated online long before it was recently presented as evidence of a fresh attack by Fulani militias in Nigeria. Available evidence instead links the video to reports concerning an attack in Mali involving Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), an al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group operating in the Sahel region.

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‎Verdict: ‎Misleading

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‎The viral video did not show a recent attack by Fulani militias in a Nigerian community as claimed. Verification shows that the footage had been circulating online since at least 2025 and was later identified in posts linking it to a mass killing in Mali involving JNIM militants. Therefore, presenting the video as evidence of a recent attack in Nigeria is misleading.

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