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On July 16, popular Instagram user @astagfirolah shared a post with "breaking news” that Google Maps and Apple Maps had officially removed Palestine from their maps. It received over a million likes and prompted a wave of social media outrage. The post was later edited to say that it was false news, and that Palestine was never actually on these maps. This is not the first time this hoax spreads. In 2016, the same news circulated to no factual evidence.…