To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.
2 min
After a monthlong lull in hostilities, the United States launched fresh airstrikes on Iran on Sunday, prompting retaliation from Tehran and renewed fighting across the Middle East. But as the strikes have resumed, so has a wave of misinformation.
As Iran responded to the US strikes by targeting American allies and military sites across the region, social media users began sharing old and unrelated footage, falsely claiming it showed the latest attacks in Jordan, Kuwait and around the Strait of Hormuz.
One widely viewed video, gaining hundreds of thousands of views,claimed to show a US military base in Jordan engulfed in flames. However, it has been circulating online for around six months and was originally presented as footage of a drone attack on the US consulate in Dubai, which we confirmed via geolocation analysis.
Another account shared a blurry clip claiming to show the Iranian military "pounding American bases in Jordan with heavy missiles." In reality, the footage was filmed last year in Ryazan, southeast of Moscow, following a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian oil refinery.
Similar false claims have also emerged around US facilities elsewhere in the Gulf. One video was shared as purported footage of Iran shelling the US consulate in Kuwait, except the original video is from a SWAT operation explosion on a house in Arlington, Virginia.
And the misleading...
To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. 2 min After a monthlong lull in hostilities, the United States launched fresh airstrikes on I...