shammer here ! Fakes there ! Fakes everywhere ! Today we have five more photos you may have seen buy the farm through the gargantuan digestive parcel sleep together as the cyberspace recently . But do n’t be fooled . These are all fake .
1. Isthisa photo of empty store shelves in Venezuela?
This photo go viral last week when some people arrogate that those empty shelves were a merchandise of Venezuela ’s socialist policies . The embarrassing part ? It ’s not a photo from Venezuela . It ’s from Texas .
bourgeois columnist Michelle Malkin recently indite an article criticize presidential aspirer Bernie Sanders and his quest for what she characterise as Venezuelan - elan socialist economy . When The National Revieworiginallyposted the story , it included the image above — a dirtied up version of the original photo , which you’re able to see below . But as the blogLittle Green Footballspoints out , the motion picture in reality comes from a Walmart in Austin , Texas .
Apparently the photo was rent in the lead up to Hurricane Rita in 2005 , as queasy shoppers stripped the shelves of nearly everything . So it ’s an understatement to say that The National Review ’s original caption for the photo , “ Venezuela ’s vibrant economy , ” was more than a little misleading .
As Malkin point outon Twitter , she did n’t select the photo , The National Review did . Her column is syndicated by a number of unlike newsworthiness outlets and each chooses their own art to play along any give post . Now the question is , where did The National Review pull the figure from ?
Image viaNational Review
2. Isthisa Six Flags amusement park in Texas underwater?
The late implosion therapy in Texas has been crushing to local communities . We ’ve get wind some chilling picture come out of the Lone Star state . But the photo above is n’t one of them . The image really shows an Atlanta melodic theme commons that was floodedback in 2009 .
Yes , the photo is real . But like so many images that we see floating around social medium after natural disasters , this one does n’t show the thing it purports to show .
phony image viaMcCartyConnor
3. IsthisTed Cruz trying to find a clitoris?
We ’re just 525 daylight from the 2016 presidential election , so you live what that intend … BRING ON THE POLITICAL FAKES !
The latest in political fakery ? In the photo above , Ted Cruz supposedly points at an instance of a vagina , ineffective to describe the button . If such an image sounds too full to be true , that ’s because it is . This pretender was make by a chucklegoof site known as16 Inch City .
simulated image via@ChiefElkby16inchcity
4. IsthisJimi Hendrix playing an accordion?
I guess 2015 will be know as the year that OldPicsArchive overtook HistoryInPics as the Worst Twitter Account Ever ™ . At least when HistoryInPics gets called out for posting food waste , it only seldom post that image again . OldPicsArchive does n’t seem to care . Take , for example , this previous fake that keep popping up .
No , that ’s not really Jimi Hendrix playing an accordion in his boxer shorts . It ’s a inexpertly done photoshop job . The original exposure is on the rightfulness . For whatever reason , the great unwashed love to photoshop accordions into Hendrix ’s hands . Just take a look at this one from a website calledWorth 1000 .
Fake persona viaOldPicsArchive
5. Isthisa photo from the Texas floods?
Hold on to yer buttocks — we have another fake picture from Texas . When a news station in Houston asked viewers for photos from the flooding , they received a figure of breathtaking crack . But one paradigm that they wound up publishing looked a little out of position .
Is the pic above from the flooding in Texas and Oklahoma that has claimed the lives of28 people ? Nope . It ’s a screenshot from the original Jurassic Park movie .
Fake image viaRedditand KHOU
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