The man “may have given a false identity,” the network said on Monday. CNN said Monday that it is investigating the identity of a man who was freed from a Syrian prison last week while the network’s cameras were rolling.

In a dramatic viral video, CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward, looking for signs of captured US journalist Austin Tice in a Syrian prison, instead found a man huddled under a blanket who claimed he'd been imprisoned for months and had no idea President Bashar al-Assad's regime had collapsed.