Before you join the 68,000 people who retweeted that fake photo, just spend two clicks factchecking it. In Chrome, rightclick the image, then click Search. You have not yet voted on this site If you have already visited the site, please help us classify the good from the bad by voting on this site. As more sophisticated options appeared, Paints janky aesthetic became a conscious choice. Paint became the metonym for that aesthetic, even if an image was. Fact Check That Viral Image in Two Clicks. Major news events like Hurricane Harvey produce thousands of photos, and thousands more tweets and Facebook posts of fake, outdated or out of context photos. This time the big winner is a photoshop of a shark on the freeway, which pops up during every major hurricane. Before you join the 6. In Chrome, right click the image, then click Search Google for Image. And boom, you see if theres a source or ten blog posts debunking it. Buzz. Feed reporter Jane Lytvynenko breaks it down into baby steps And heres the slightly longer process on mobile Its a pain, but if you dont do this, youll have to admit youre more interested in attention than you are in the truth. And when all your followers see you fall for a hoax, theyll unfollow you for being a dummy. But youre not a dummy and youre not attention starved, so youll fact check before you retweet, and no fake image will ever go viral again Meanwhile, follow the Washington Posts running list of Hurricane Harvey hoaxes, or Buzz. Download the free trial version below to get started. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install the software.
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