evidence: Claim: "This happened before the earthquake in Morocco," claims a user on X, formerly Twitter. He posted a video that purports to show "some kind of drone" throwing lightning bolts and "a huge laser-like beam" downward. Another video, which has been viewed more than 200,000 times, purports to show the sky over Marrakech "before the earthquake occurred." The videos are also being spread on TikTok. [...] This video, which is supposed to show a lightning bolt, has been posted several times and can be traced back to 2020, long before the recent earthquake in Morocco. Many users and also the author himself commented ironically on the video, which is supposed to show an attack by aliens. It was created by a video artist called Jay Hideaway, who uses VFX technology to insert artificially created visual effects into real videos. His TikTok channel features numerous computer-generated videos that are supposed to show apocalyptic scenes, such as zombie attacks or an explosion of the moon. On his account, Jay Hideaway calls his works "apocalyptic video art." [...] Videos of alleged evidence of human intervention also made the rounds after the devastating earthquake in Turkey in February. Lights in the sky were said to prove that the earthquake in Turkey was allegedly caused by a former US military program called the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). So-called earthquake lights were probably the cause of the flashes in the videos, fact checks showed. Earthquake lights are generated by sparks on power lines when they are interrupted by the tremors of the earthquake.