{"id":813263,"date":"2021-09-25T11:13:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=813263"},"modified":"2021-09-25T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T15:13:31","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-taliban-vehicle-that-looks-similar-to-teslas-cybertruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-taliban-vehicle-that-looks-similar-to-teslas-cybertruck\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Taliban Vehicle That Looks Similar To Tesla\u2019s CyberTruck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-taliban-vehicle-that-looks-similar-to-teslas-cybertruck%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=813263&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Abderrahman.alhassani\/posts\/4093985750712654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows members of the Taliban riding in a vehicle that looks like a Tesla CyberTruck.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo has been digitally altered to look like a CyberTruck.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Abderrahman.alhassani\/posts\/4093985750712654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> purportedly showing a military vehicle owned by the Taliban resembling a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=464puoD09dM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tesla CyberTruck<\/a> has circulated in recent weeks. The Taliban took control of Afghanistan last month amid the U.S.\u2019s withdrawal of troops from the country, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/08\/30\/1032656612\/taliban-afghanistan-american-forces-withdrawal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/20\/fact-check-video-people-kabul-welcoming-taliban\/\"><strong>(RELATED: No, This Video Does Not Show The People Of Kabul Welcoming The Taliban Into The City)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search revealed the picture has been photoshopped to make the vehicle look like a CyberTruck. The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/CSfoW#selection-607.25-607.367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original photo<\/a>, taken by Associated Press photographer Rahmat Gul in August, actually shows what appears to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=humvee&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS850US850&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiygp3GkJrzAhXQyp4KHUCDBBAQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&amp;biw=1171&amp;bih=766&amp;dpr=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Humvee<\/a>, a type of vehicle formerly used by Afghan security forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-58356045\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prior to<\/a> the government\u2019s collapse. In the edited version, the roof of the military vehicle has been altered to resemble the CyberTruck\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaliban fighters stand guard in front of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021,\u201d reads the caption of the undoctored photo. \u201cThousands of people packed into the Afghan capital\u2019s airport on Monday, rushing the tarmac and pushing onto planes in desperate attempts to flee the country after the Taliban overthrew the Western-backed government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tesla delayed the rollout of its CyberTrucks to 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/teslas-cybertruck-release-date-delayed-delay-2022-elon-musk-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a> reported in August. A picture of the vehicle can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/cybertruck\/design?redirect=no#battery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tesla\u2019s website<\/a>, where it says people will be able to \u201ccomplete\u201d their \u201cconfiguration\u201d of the CyberTruck \u201cas production nears in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows members of the Taliban riding in a vehicle that looks like a Tesla CyberTruck.Verdict: False The photo has been digitally altered to look &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}