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Analysis: Irma is not a "Category 6" hurricane: a running list of viral hoaxes about the storm wapo.st/2gGFkvw
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Lots of people regurgitating this video of a tornado from last year. Location unclear but you can see a BBVA branch:
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Replying to @FuegoNugz
That is a Tornado from at least a year ago
youtube.com/watch?v=16Fxkj
cc @PicPedant
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Via , some of the people sharing old mis-captioned tornado vid are confusing Barbuda w/ Barbados:
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Here's a good one for your #Irma fakes thread.
1. Irma was not close to Barbados
2. Looks more like tornado than hurricane video twitter.com/Read4Ks/status
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This is actually an image of Hurricane Harvey captured by from on 25 Aug: twitter.com/ShireenSandova
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Here's the original Harvey photo, note the solar panels from the cropped-out SpaceX Dragon:
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.@Astro2fish orbited over Hurricane #Harvey2017 and photographed the storm bearing down on the Texas coast.
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Mis-captioned mage of Hurricane Rita evac, Houston, 2005 — note bonus Iraq and Syria hashtags: (thanks )
twitter.com/lefrancmac/sta
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Seeing these images captioned elsewhere as being from Antigua & Barbuda; per , they're from St Maarten:
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Pictures m sent to our newsroom from St. Maarten after Hurricane Irma initial impact.
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Here's "Aska Newz" posting a video of "Hurricane Irma" in "Barbuda": youtu.be/vYn0VVsBDvA — it's actually TS Gonzalo in 2014.
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We know this bec. "Aska Newz" recycled same video as "Irma" in "Virgin Islands" & someone says TS Gonzalo at 5m20s: youtu.be/Uxm6ETbfPck?t=
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More from on that tornado video; I have seen location reported as Dolores, or Baranquilla, or Mexico
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An actual meteorologist with a verified Facebook profile fell for a fake video of Irma: buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman
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"Traffic" image used is an edit of a 1998 Los Angeles highway photo by . i7.tinypic.com/2n1xavk.jpg
twitter.com/AlexanderXV/st
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GIF comparison with Greenspun's older photo. (Confession: I used to think the edited version was a real image of China Nat Hwy 110 traffic.)
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Viral accts linking vid of building falling into river. Those are from Tibet, 2 months ago: youtu.be/kIxDUErzZZA twitter.com/newstweete/sta
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Tornado vid:
❌Barbuda
❌Mexico
☑️Dolores
❌Baranquilla
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The 1st video with the BBVA office was taken more than a year ago in Dolores, Uruguay bit.ly/2f6NrBq cc @PicPedant @CraigSilverman
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The Hurricane #Irma images are astonishing - but are they all they seem? We tracked some of the fake reports bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre
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Oh come on, red brick cladding? Those buildings are SO not Florida. twitter.com/Genz38/status/
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(FWIW from context was being tongue-in-cheek on this, but I'm sure there are uncritical ones out there.) twitter.com/mopage19/statu
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Nah, that's Typhoon Maysak from 2015, rotated sideways: slate.com/blogs/bad_astr
twitter.com/xavierkatana/s
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Image at lower left is a 737 skidding in wind…in Siberia last year. bgr.com/2016/03/24/boe
twitter.com/TheVLogic/stat
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