New Delhi: Multiple social media users shared a video of a turquoise colour mosque-like structure, those sharing the video claimed that it was an illegally built mosque in India that was being demolished with the help of bulldozers.
However, the PTI Fact Check Desk investigated and found that the viral video was shared with a false claim. Upon investigation, it was revealed that the video shows a building in a theme park in Java, Indonesia, being demolished for violating land permits and is unrelated to India.
Claim
On March 11, an X (formerly Twitter) user shared a video of a turquoise building shaped like a mosque, claiming that bulldozers in India demolished it.
The caption of the post read: “Bulldozers in India demolish illegal mosques.” When posting this article, the post had garnered 2.2 Million views.
Here is the link to the post and below is a screenshot of the same.
Investigation
The Desk ran the viral video through the InVid tool and extracted multiple keyframes. Upon running one of the keyframes through Google Lens, the Desk found various users shared the same video with similar claims. Two such posts can be found here and here.
On further scanning the search results, the Desk came across a video uploaded on YouTube on March 7, 2025, showing the structure's destruction visible in the viral video. The video's title, initially in Indonesian, reads, "End of the story for Hibisc Fantasy Tourism Park."
Here is the link to the video and below is a screenshot of the...
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