{"id":659864,"date":"2025-12-29T08:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:33:10","slug":"check-old-unrelated-video-shared-as-christmas-tree-set-on-fire-in-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659864\/","title":{"rendered":"Check | Old, Unrelated Video Shared as Christmas Tree Set on Fire in United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video showing flames engulfing a Christmas tree inside what appears to be a shopping mall is being circulated on the internet as recent visuals from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/topic\/united-kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Kingdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the post say?: <\/strong>The video carried text that said, &#8220;Islamist Jihadist Burned Christmas Tree in UK.&#8221; The user had shared the clip with a caption saying, &#8220;Hey world and Indian opposition watch this. Christmas Tree Burned in the UK Shocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(More archives of similar claims could be found <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/VKRUd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/eIMQw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/0ouh4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the facts?: <\/strong>The video dates back to December 2024, when a Christmas tree caught fire reportedly due to a short circuit inside a mall in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thequint.com\/topic\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a>&#8216;s Chengdu. This made the viral claim <strong>false<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A video showing flames engulfing a Christmas tree inside what appears to be a shopping mall is being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,1395,201702,51973,393,14554,201700,4884,201701,1144,712,16,15,6469,175836,1764,175830],"class_list":{"0":"post-659864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinas-chengdu","12":"tag-christmas-tree","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-fact-check","15":"tag-flames-engulfing-a-christmas-tree","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-islamist-jihadist-burned-christmas-tree-in-uk","18":"tag-northern-ireland","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-viral-video","23":"tag-viral-video-fact-check","24":"tag-wales","25":"tag-webqoof"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115801935410076176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}