A video has been shared widely on social media with claims that it shows trophy hunters posing with a dead lion before they are fatally mauled by the animal’s brothers. However, this is false; the staged video was created by an Australian production company and AFP Fact Check already debunked it more than four years ago. The new claims have also appeared alongside a picture of a dead lion and a trophy hunter, whose purported fate – being eaten alive – was recorded on Instagram Live. This too is false; live streaming on Instagram was only introduced a year after the picture was taken.

“WATCH: Trophy hunter attacked and eaten live by the brothers of another lion he had killed and was posing with for photos while live streaming on Instagram in South African,” reads a tweet published on January 27, 2023.

The video shows a man and a woman posing behind a dead lion. The woman is armed with a rifle. As the man adjusts the camera, a second lion appears and charges towards them as they run out of the frame.

Screams and gunshots are heard in the background before the lion enters the frame again.

At first glance, the video looks real. However, the footage is staged and was debunked by AFP Fact Check in 2018.

The dead lion in the video can be seen in another picture, which AFP Fact Check originally traced back to 2013 using a reverse image search and the internet archive website Wayback Machine. The locations and scenes appear different but it’s the same lion, as seen in the images...

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