No, the shark picture isnt real: A running list of Harveys viral hoaxes

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13. And now, from Southern Fried Science:

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.

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How to tell if a “shark in flooded city streets after a storm” photo is a fake in 5 easy steps

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 it’s amazing. Check it out:



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5) Just assume that the picture is a fake. You’ll 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 course’s water hazard, but neither of those are the same thing as a shark swimming through the streets of a city.
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Author’s note: It’s 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, I’ll happily add the photographer’s name to the photo captions.