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By Gillian West, Social media manager

June 28, 2015 | 1 min read

CNN international assignment editor Lucy Pawle was fooled by a parody flag at this year's Gay Pride celebrations in London.

Reporting from the event Pawle said she had spotted an ISIS flag amongst the crowds telling the news network: "I seem to be the only person who has spotted this."

However, there was just one problem with Pawle's observations - the flag was a parody covered with images of dildos and butt plugs.

"If you look at the flag closely, it's clearly not Arabic," said Pawle. "It looks like it could be gobbledegook."

The segment has since been pulled from CNN's site but not before one viewer had uploaded it to YouTube (see above).

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