Left: cover still from a TikTok video by @@montanajanel. Right: A village of sandy-coloured buildings in a desert landscape (Unsplash photo by Rikke Hembre).
Left: cover still from a TikTok video by @@montanajanel. Right: A village of sandy-coloured buildings in a desert landscape (Unsplash photo by Rikke Hembre).

The whole claim in a six second TikTok from @montanajanel fits in two lines of on screen text. They read: “traveling is expensive let’s just go to florida” and then “my 3 day trip to morocco was $130 but ok,” followed by a row of thinking face emojis.

Her caption answers the same comment in kind: “enjoy fort lauderdale!!!” The hashtags are #morocco, #traveltiktok, #traveldeals and #moroccotravel.

The footage is a single bright indoor shot with window shutters along one wall. A woman is seen from behind in a cream colored top and a patterned skirt while a person in a light robe and a blue head wrap arranges a long red patterned cloth over her head. The clip does not show a flight, a hotel, a meal or a receipt, and nothing on screen says what the $130 covers.

That gap matters when reading the number. The claim is that the whole three day trip was $130, but the video does not say whether that figure includes airfare, lodging, food, transport and activities, or only some of them, and it does not say where she traveled from. The reply to a statement that travel is expensive is a number without a breakdown, so it is her claim and cannot be checked from the video.

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