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Following the floods in Texas, online accounts tried to to take advantage of the moment by sharing dramatic videos of previous unrelated floods. Here is how fact-checkers spot the fake videos.

Amid the tragedy, several online accounts took advantage of people looking for flood footage by sharing clips of natural disasters that happened in other years and, in some cases, different countries.