The claim: Video shows ‘looters’ during California wildfires
A Jan. 9 Threads post ( direct link , archive link ) shows a man carrying white bags down a street as smoke clouds fill the sky behind him. It then cuts to another video of two men carrying a television through the front door of a house.
“Looters seen going through homes,” the post’s caption reads.
The Threads post was reposted more than 400 times in a day. Similar versions of the claim circulated widely on Instagram and on X …