No, the shark picture isnt real: A running list of Harveys viral hoaxes
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Source: Washington post
The shark picture is fake
Any time you see a picture of a shark swimming down a street or in a subway station, or what have you after a major flooding event, be suspicious. Fake shark pictures, often the work of photo editing, are the most inevitable visual viral hoax in a disaster like this, to the point that its almost become a meme.
The shark is not swimming down the street. It was not swimming down the (same) street during Hurricane Matthew. It wasnt swimming in the aftermath of Sandy. And most of the other pictures of sharks swimming where people were are fake too.
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Obama is not serving food to evacuees in Texas right now
A viral, now-deleted tweet claimed to show former president Barack Obama serving hot meals to those evacuated from the floods in Texas.
Something youll never see Trump do: Obama is in Texas serving meals!, the tweet read. While the photo is real, the context is fake its not a recent photo of Obama, and it has nothing to do with the former presidents response to Harvey.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/08/28/no-the-shark-picture-isnt-real-a-running-list-of-harveys-viral-hoaxes/?utm_term=.2f96b11cebd8
jl_theprofessor
(95 posts)Be wary of photochops. With that said, we definitely have alligators on the loose.
Beakybird
(3,332 posts)[img]http://imgur.com/a/V95QQ[/img]
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Beakybird
(3,332 posts)billh58
(6,635 posts)the picture on hosting web site such as http://imgur.com/ and then you can paste the URL for the pic into a DU post.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)sarisataka
(18,600 posts)progressoid
(49,978 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)a reputable account or media outlet...
jmowreader
(50,555 posts)You're saying that picture of Godzilla wiping out an HEB is NOT from a reputable media outlet?
Oh you guys.
IronLionZion
(45,427 posts)and not let their guard down because of some pranksters sharing fake shark pics. There are things in Texas flood waters that can kill you.
And hopefully the spiders and frogs will do their jobs to murder as many mosquitoes as they can before Trump cuts off travel from Texas due to diseases.
While sharks don't show up after rain (sharks don't fall from the sky), bull sharks can go further up rivers and waterways that have ocean access because the extra water makes them not understand they are in the wrong place.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,395 posts)Retweeted by Dave Weigel: https://twitter.com/daveweigel
Stop sharing photoshopped images of sharks in flooded city streets. Sharing fake news hurts America. Do better.
Link to tweet
David Shiffman
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3) Upload the image itself to Google Image and see what pops up. Did you know you can use Google Image search to look not for a keyword, but for a photo itself? Really, you can. And its amazing. Check it out:
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5) Just assume that the picture is a fake. Youll be right most of the time. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a confirmed photo of a shark swimming in city streets following a storm, though please feel free to correct me in the comments.A shark tank did recently collapse (the sharks died quickly and were never swimming through the building), and a flood did result in sharks entering a golf courses water hazard, but neither of those are the same thing as a shark swimming through the streets of a city.
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Authors note: Its extremely difficult in the case of viral images to determine who took the original photo, which is why I have not attributed most of these to a photographer. If anyone knows (and can prove) who took any of the original photos, Ill happily add the photographers name to the photo captions.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,307 posts)Please repost in GD. Thanks.