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A video shows people scaling the fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave Melilla in North Africa. It doesn't show the U.S.-Mexico border.

"This is what the border really looks like," reads text superimposed on the video."I'll bet you haven't seen this on the news."The post does not explicitly say the video shows the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But an array of comments show users are assuming that to be the case.

Like our page to get updates throughout the day on our latest debunksThe implied claim is wrong. The video shows people scaling a fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa.Melilla, a Spanish city on the northern shore of Morroco's Mediterranean coast, is separated from Morocco by a double fence,

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