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A misleading video is circulating online, allegedly showing a barrage of Iranian strikes on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv earlier in April, which has supposedly gone up in flames. But not everything is as it seems. The video is usually accompanied by some sort of caption describing intense missile strikes that have caused widespread destruction. “The fires of hell are burning”, one such post says. It was shared in this context just after Israel attacked the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria on 1 April, killing various Iranian officials. The story was even promoted on X’s main feed with the hea…

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