No, Emma Gonzalez did not tear up a photo of the Constitution

[DonViejo]

By Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN

Updated 10:00 AM ET, Mon March 26, 2018

(CNN)A doctored animation of Parkland shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez ripping the US Constitution in two went viral on social media after Gab, a so-called "free speech social network" that features the controversial Pepe the Frog as its account image, posted it on Twitter.

The tweet gathered 1,500 retweets and 2,900 likes and only after a few hours did Gab specify the fake animation was "obviously a parody/satire."

The original animation is from a Teen Vogue story released March 23 featuring Gonzalez and other teen activists, as Allure & Teen Vogue communications director Jaime Ellyn Marsanico confirmed to CNN. It shows Gonzalez ripping a target poster, not the Constitution.

Teen Vogue chief content officer, Phillip Picardi, also set the record straight on Twitter:

Link to tweet

"The fact that we even have to clarify this is proof of how democracy continues to be fractured by people who manipulate and fabricate the truth," Picardi said.
The most popular debunk was from Donald Moynihan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who said: "Just a sample of what NRA supporters are doing to teenagers who survived a massacre (real picture on the right)":

Link to tweet

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/us/emma-gonzalez-photo-doctored-trnd/index.html

[dchill]

1. Not Real Americans.

There is no bottom.

[MineralMan]

2. Unfortunately, that image is being copied and

pasted all over the place today. I saw it this morning in my Facebook feed. The person who posted it got a good scolding, though, from a long list of "friends."

Fake News going viral.

[Hortensis]

3. An important lesson to youth about character assassination.

Hopefully, she's widely admired enough that it will be taken and understood for what it is. Teachers in many classes will hopefully using this as a teaching moment. Many others, of course, not.

[IluvPitties]

4. Fake news, huh?