Markets are volatile Monday morning after a fake image of an explosion in Washington, D.C. circulated on Twitter. A Department of Defense pokesperson has since denied the veracity of the image and the original tweet has been deleted.

A tweet claiming there were "initial reports" of a large explosion near the Pentagon was deleted soon after it was posted on the social media platform Monday morning.

Shortly after the tweet was taken down, a Pentagon spokesperson said the tweet was false.

"No explosion here this morning," the spokesperson said, according to multiple sources.