CONFUSION SPREADSOn social media, the picture became blurred.
Other social media users cited a Nov. 10 Newsweek article titled “Iran Protesters Refuse to Back Down as 15,000 Face Execution” as their source (here), (here), (here).
Posts on social media conflated this with figures by local activist agencies that over 15,000 people had been detained.
As of publication, death sentences have not been handed to 15,000 detained people.
Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here .