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The shocking images coming out of the migrant crisis are varied - but one purporting to show jihadists who have infiltrated groups of Europe-bound refugees has been shown to be a FAKE.

Since the current crisis exploded, a simple scout of social networks shows that the internet has been flooded with what seem to be anti-refugee memes.

Thanks to a Google Image search, the picture above, allegedly showing ISIS fighters in an angry confrontation with German police after sneaking into the country among Syrian refugees, was found to be from 2012.

This image has been shared massively on Facebook, and plays into fears raised by news reports which claim that thousands of ISIS gunmen have been smuggled into the west with completely innocent refugees.

The image has also been picked up by news sites around the world who are claiming that it is real - but it's not.

In fact the picture shows clashes at an anti-Islam rally in 2012 in Bonn, Germany - and it is unclear what is displayed on the flag.

Traditionally, many Islamic flags are monochrome because some people believe one of the Prophet Muhammad’s original banners was black.

While Vice has conducted a thorough examination of those images which are definite fakes, any social media user can run a quick image search on a picture they see shared online and prove - or debunk - its veracity.

Philip Kleinfeld on Vice explained: "Photographs like [these] are being circulated on a number of far-right Facebook pages including the EDL, South East Alliance (a far-right EDL splinter-group) and Pegida UK."

The below image, as shared on Pegida UK - the British offshoot of German anti-“Islamisation” group Pegida - was taken in 1991 and shows Albanians trying to get into Italy.

But that hasn't stopped it being used to show the crisis at the moment and reinforcing the opinions of some of this, as one user commented, "growing cancer".

Meanwhile, this EDL post, which purports to show beefy refugees "seeking their next protein shake", is actually an image taken on Christmas island in 2013, with the uniformed officials from Australian Customs and Border Protection.

The speed with which images are being shared online is a massive boon to finding out what's really going on in the countries across the world where refugees are seeking a brighter future from war.

But they're also an easy way for falsehoods and wrong impressions to be disseminated without anyone asking about the provenance of the detail.

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