WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Videos show the flooding of Texas in July.
OUR VERDICT
False. The videos are either AI-generated or show floods in other countries.
AAP FACTCHECK - Videos purporting to show the recent deadly floods in the US state of Texas are swirling around social media, but many of the clips are fake.
Texas experienced historic flooding in July 2025, which killed scores of people, but the videos in question appear to be either generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools or depict different floods in other countries.
A Facebook video claims to show "insane footage" of the flooding, including towns being rapidly inundated.
The video has racked up almost 6 million views and 13,000 shares, but despite the user claiming in the comments that the footage is real, it's actually generated using AI tools.
A watermark on the first clip in the video shows the TikTok account @spoookkyydoo, which posts AI-generated clips of weather "events".
That account, which frequently posts, deletes and then reposts multiple clips, posted the same footage before it was shared on Facebook.
In the Facebook video's first clip, people are seen working on the outside of a building, then being swallowed up by floodwaters without reacting, or simply disappearing into thin air (timestamp 11 seconds).
The next segment (timestamp 00:14) depicts several vehicles and people merging unnaturally into one another, before an unrealistic brown wave appears from a valley in the background and inexplicably gushes down the street.
In the following clip, several distorted vehicles travel up a road, seemingly ploughing through pedestrians.
The road and surrounding buildings are then engulfed by unnaturally fast-moving floodwaters, during which the colour of a house appears to change from brown to white (timestamp 00:27).
In the video's final segment, some floodwater seems to emerge from the houses to the right of the footage, rather than from the river system on the left (timestamp 00:53).
Another Facebook video also purports to show footage from the Texas floods.
The flooded street seen in the first clip, however, shows a street in the Chinese city of Fujian, visible in images and videos published in 2023 on the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, as well as on property publication Sohu.
The original footage has been flipped horizontally in the false Facebook video.
Similarly, the second clip (timestamp 00:05) is a horizontally flipped version of flooding near a shopping centre in the Mentougou district of Beijing after Typhoon Doksuri in 2023, reported by Chinese broadcaster CTS News.
Using reverse image search, AAP FactCheck geolocated the two visible buildings in the footage to Zengchan Road, which are visible in panorama mode at street level on Chinese mapping service Baidu Maps.
The fourth clip (timestamp 00:13) matches other video footage posted on social media, including a TikTok video, in early July 2025 as floods ravaged Texas, but it could not be definitively tied to the disaster.
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