Thousands of crows recently launched an attack in Saudi Arabia.

A video from 2016 from Texas, United States, is falsely being shared on social media with the claim that it's from 2020 in Saudi Arabia.

A viral video showing thousands of crows is bring circulated with the false claim that it is from 2020 and was shot in Saudi Arabia. The video further claims that it was shot outside a Walmart in Saudi Arabia, and the birds were not letting customers come out of the store. A simple google search helped us find a Facebook post by Daily Mail, posted on April 18, which carried the same video. The post shows that the video's location is HMart in Texas and was taken from a website called Viral Hog. Moreover, the video can be traced back to 2016.

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