A graphic video showing a man being whipped while tied to a post is frequently shared online with the claim that it captures vigilantes performing an ISIS-style execution on a pedophile who was caught molesting a 2-year-old child.
This rumor appears to have originated with a September 2016 article published on the Romanian web site Stiri Mondene but received wider attention nearly a year later when notorious purveyors of misinformation Neon Nettle and Your News Wire published a pair of articles about it in October 2017.
Since then, a number of other disreputable websites have picked up on the story, including Cvikas, The Unknown But Not Hidden, and NYNews.Today, before the claim was rehashed yet again by the danfekhabar.com website in October 2018:
