Image from Hindu festival falsely shared as demonstration in Thai capital

Crowds flocked to Bangkok's popular Silom district in October 2026 to celebrate an annual Hindu festival, but an image of the festivities has been repackaged and misrepresented on social media as showing protesters in the Thai capital. There were no such protests at the site at the time. The circulating image was lifted from a Facebook video of the religious festival and corresponds to other similar visuals taken at the time.