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Misleading Images Spread Online Around Ceuta Crossings

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As genuine images from the mass crossings into Ceuta spread online, users shared AI-generated photographs and recycled footage with misleading captions to muddy the waters.

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A video of several cleaning service workers cleaning the streets circulates on social networks along with messages that claim that they are images of Ceuta “after expelling migrants from Morocco”. However, it is a bull. Although cleaning work was carried out in the autonomous city, these images were recorded in Pamplona during the celebration of San Fermín this 2026. This disinformation has circulated on social networks such as X and TikTok. Ima…

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It circulates on social networks a video that supposedly shows young people kicking garbage containers and tearing down the streets of Ceuta, why you asked us the WhatsApp chatbot of Curdada.es (+34 644 229 319).But the images are not recorded in Ceuta in the context of the entry of irregular migrants to this autonomous city at the end of July 2026.In reality, the video was recorded in Toulouse (France) after the victory of Paris Saint-Germain (…

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The arrival of thousands of migrants from Morocco to Ceuta triggered a wave of publications on social networks, with videos, photographs and allegations about the migration crisis experienced in the autonomous Spanish city. Among the shared contents we find a video that allegedly shows cleaning teams collecting large amounts of garbage, supposedly left by migrants on the streets of the city. But were these images really captured in Ceuta?

Radio presenter Javier Cárdenas has shared on his Instagram a video of a group of people destroying garbage cans in the street with the poster “Moroccan immigrants in Ceuta.” In the description, Cárdenas said: “If it is not an invasion and come to integrate, why destroy everything in its path?”The video is neither current nor corresponds to the migratory and humanitarian crisis that is lived in Ceuta. It was first published on May 31 in the cont…

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20minutos broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, August 5, 2026.
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