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Viral Google Maps Images Show Gaza Ruins, Not New Imagery
Original: Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat
Bellingcat reports that widely shared posts this week claiming Google had updated its satellite imagery of Gaza were misleading, as the images were not entirely new. The open-source investigators obtained more recent satellite imagery to give an accurate picture of the widespread destruction across Gaza.
Why now: Claims of freshly updated Google Maps imagery showing Gaza's ruins spread rapidly this week, prompting fact-checking about how recent the images actually were.
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- Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat · bellingcat
Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.
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