"#BBCtrending: Are #GazaUnderAttack images accurate?"

Wherein we rediscover for the millionth time that stock photos tend to crop up in reports. Here the BBC is talking about Gaza-related tweets and how some of the photos claimed to be from recent activity there are actually from past conflicts in the region or even from places like Syria instead.

Of course Gaza is far from the only place you'll see stock photos being used. e.g. in the May 2014 South Korea ferry sinkings, Fox News used footage of random sad Asians instead of actual Koreans mourning the ferry. Airline disasters are another topic that seem quite likely to use stock photography.