🌀 Misinformation Radar: ❓ "EXPLOSIONS IN RIYADH… LEAVE SAUDI ARABIA NOW!!!" Is it true?

🌀 Misinformation Radar
❓ "EXPLOSIONS IN RIYADH… LEAVE SAUDI ARABIA NOW!!!" Is it true?
⚠️ Verdict: False
The photo is old, circulating since 12 Oct and credited to Riyadh, then Sanaa, then Dhahran. No blasts were reported in Riyadh when it was posted; the first ones heard came 4 hours later, when the coalition intercepted 2 ballistic missiles.
🌍 Spread in 🇬🇧 English (leading) and 🇮🇳 Hindi.
🔗 https://t.co/cDJkxArukE

🛰️ How we caught it: we matched the exact wording across accounts, languages and timestamps.
10:42 🇬🇧 The original, in English, from an account in the UK (19,567 views)
11:28 A word-for-word copy, text and photo
11:49 🇬🇧 The same line bolted onto a Ras Tanura post
12:21 🇮🇳 https://t.co/Cc6ZZs3d1i