Viral image of Temu warehouse fire is AI-generated

Across social media sites, an image of a Temu warehouse on fire went viral. The captions for the image, including for a version shared in an X post viewed over 17 million times, claimed the fire happened at a warehouse in China and that the lost inventory was valued between only $56 and $250.

Temu, which is based in China, is an online retailer like Amazon. It’s known for selling cheap products of varying quality.

Some of the people replying to the posts and sharing the image believed it to be real. Some VERIFY readers texted us to ask if the image was real.

THE QUESTION
Is a viral image of a Temu warehouse fire real?

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