[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/05/wednesday-briefing-how-misinformation-and-a-hardened-immigration-policy-turned-ceuta-into-europes-latest-flashpoint

A social media hoax told lots of Moroccans that if they swam into Ceuta (a Spanish colony adjacent to Morocco) right away, they would be allowed to go to Spain and stay there. Some 70,000 went into Ceuta, found out story was a hoax, and mostly went back to Morocco. But European right-wing extremists are using it to pretend