YouTube suspends pro-Iran channel producing viral Lego-themed AI videos that ridicule Trump

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In a screenshot of a TikTok video taken on April 14, 2026, a person states all gas sold in the US after May 1 will be 15% percent ethanol blends, "killing your car engine."

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This video is spreading across X in posts falsely claiming it captures the United States surging troops to the Middle East amid a two-week ceasefire with Iran.

The clip actually shows a 2023 homecoming flyover conducted at a US Marines air base in California.

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Online claims that this clip shows US troops returning amid the ceasefire with Iran are false.

In fact, it captures the March homecoming of Iowa National Guard members who deployed to Iraq and Syria for months as part of a mission against the Islamic State group.

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Several Republican politicians, including Texas Governor Greg Abbott, shared an AI-generated image depicting the rescue of the US airman whose fighter jet was shot down over Iran. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

There is a lot of misinformation still circulating about the rescue of the crew from the US fighter jet shot down over Iran.

This clip being misrepresented, for example, is footage of a military training exercise in California in 2024.

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This X post, now viewed more than 3.3 million times, falsely claims to show footage of the US fighter jet that reports said was downed over Iran.

It is, in fact, a clip from a war simulation video game that has been on YouTube since at least February 28.

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This X post, now viewed more than 3.3 million times, falsely claims to show footage of the US fighter jet that reports said was downed over Iran.

It is, in fact, a clip from a war simulation video game that has been on YouTube since at least February 28.

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This video has been falsely claimed to show a murder of crows swarming Tel Aviv in March 2026, a supposed bad omen for Israel amid the war with Iran.

The scene dates to February 2023 and shows a flock of birds at a Best Buy parking lot in Waco, Texas.

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X suspended "Johnny Midnight," a repeated spreader of disinformation that experts have linked to the Russian propaganda campaign Storm-1516, in recent days.

Now "ScottyMidnight," a new account just created, is replying to Elon Musk asking for its reinstatement.

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More of these posts sharing fake NBA player quotes alongside completely unrelated clips:

A number of posts are attributing false quotes about Jaden Ivey to NBA players after the Chicago Bulls waived the guard following his anti-LGBTQ comments.

None of the attached clips show the players saying the words ascribed to them.

For example, Tyrese Maxey was talking in February about a dunk.

This video, claimed in some posts online to show an Iranian missile strike on Tel Aviv, is actually footage of a rooftop fire two weeks ago in New York City. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

This video is unrelated to an Iranian-linked hacker group's claimed breach of Kash Patel's personal email.

The clip has been online since at least 2020 and shows a man imitating a dance scene from a Bollywood movie.

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This video is spreading across social media, falsely claimed to show fed-up Los Angeles residents attacking and chasing away ICE agents.

It actually shows a brawl involving workers and state police at a wholesale market in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

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This video is spreading across social media, falsely claimed to show fed-up Los Angeles residents attacking and chasing away ICE agents.

It actually shows a brawl involving workers and state police at a wholesale market in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

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The LaGuardia airport crash has reignited long-debunked 9/11 conspiracy theories, with disinformers claiming the damage to Air Canada's plane proves jets could not have collapsed the Twin Towers -- a narrative aviation experts say is extremely misguided. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Right-wing X accounts are falsely claiming this video shows a liberal protester angrily shouting the chorus of Eminem's "Not Afraid" at ICE agents in an airport.

The clip actually shows a traveler's meltdown at a Seattle airport in 2023.

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This viral video compilation claiming to show severe floodwaters washing through Hawaii this past weekend contains several old clips from previous storms. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

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Fox News has removed an OutKick article claiming to expose old X posts from Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton after her campaign said the X account that OutKick based the story on was a parody and not hers.

This video does not show Israeli beachgoers fleeing Iranian missiles, as claimed online.

It shows spring breakers in Daytona Beach, Florida panicking after what sounded like gunshots but local police said were actually water bottles being crushed.

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Online claims that this video shows Dubai's airport engulfed in flames after an Iranian strike are false.

The footage shows a massive fire that scorched a market in Ajman, another UAE city, in 2020.

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Fabricated Donald Trump Truth Social posts keep spreading online regarding the war with Iran, including this fake purporting to show the US president touting a new "Hormuz Peace Board."

The post does not appear on his Truth Social account or archives of it.

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This video, widely claimed online to show an Iranian drone hitting a hotel in Bahrain, is misrepresented.

The footage corresponds to a Russian attack on Kyiv in January and can be geolocated to the Ukrainian city.

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Fabricated Donald Trump Truth Social posts keep spreading online regarding the war with Iran, including this fake purporting to show the US president touting a new "Hormuz Peace Board."

The post does not appear on his Truth Social account or archives of it.

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