"A mosque was demolished in an earthquake in Morocco, but the call to prayer continued from there five times a day," reads Urdu-language text overlaid on an image shared on Facebook on September 13, 2023.
The post, which has been shared more than 2,900 times, shows a man perched atop the wreckage of a building using a bent ladder.
The post was uploaded a day after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Morocco near the tourist hub of Marrakesh, killing nearly 3,000 people, injuring another 5,600 and flattening entire villages.
The photo has been shared alongside similar false claims on Facebook here, here and here, as well as on X, formerly known as Twitter, here and here.
In fact, the mosque seen in the image is located just outside of the Syrian city of Aleppo and was destroyed by a Russian airstrike in 2016.
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