The net is well over with fake image these 24-hour interval , making it grueling to bonk what to trust . But Gizmodo is here to assist .
Below , we ’ve collected seven viral images that you may have seen floating around place like Facebook and Twitter recently . And they ’re all fake in one way or another .
1) Isthisa whip made from two human spines?
This photo has been going viral over the past calendar week , and it ’s easy to see why . It ’s absolutely horrendous . At least it ’s fearful if you believe what people are saying about it .
The subtitle of the viral tweet read , “ A whip made from two genuine human spines discovered in the basement of an abandoned house in Wyoming . ” Can it be true ? Thankfully , no .
The whiplash is actually a flick prop from the 2014 version of Hercules starring Dwayne “ The Rock ” Johnson , and it appear that this pic was taken to sell the prop online . If you look around , you’re able to even observe versions of the whip with agreen - screen layeradded to the closing of the eyelash .
Still do n’t think us ? Check out this abbreviated battle sequence from the plastic film .
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2) Doesthisphoto show $14 billion in cash seized from El Chapo?
Trump champion have been passing around this picture which supposedly shows billion of one dollar bill seized from notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “ El Chapo ” Guzmán . And they ’re asking why that money ca n’t be used to build the president ’s anti-Semite border wall . For a bunch of reason , as it turns out .
The photo really show stacks of money seizedin 2007from Chinese - Mexican man of affairs and alleged meth trafficker Zhenli Ye Gon . The bust , conduct by U.S. authorities in Mexico , yielded about $ 207 million in John Cash — the largest drug cash seizure in history tothat point . But the photo has nothing to do with El Chapo and his late trial .
The Drug Enforcement Agency announcement about the capture isno farseeing activeonline , but you may still view the insistency release thanks to theWayback Machine , which has file away the page from 2007 .
How did the photo become associated with El Chapo ? One possibility is this Imgur aggregation fromFebruary of 2014that include some real pic from a raid on El Chapo , but also unrelated photos throw in for no apparent cause .
It ’s an telling pile of money , but it ’s not 1000000000000 and it ’s not El Chapo ’s .
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3) Isthisa photo of Bill and Hillary Clinton in blackface?
This photo , purporting to show former president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in blackface , has been around for days . It even did the rounds during the 2016 president safari that pit Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump . But no , that ’s not the notable mates .
The photo has gone viral again in the backwash of a blackface scandal in Virginia . A photo from Democratic regulator Ralph Northam ’s old aesculapian school annual resurface where he ( or one of his friends ) appears in blackface . Amazingly , Northam at first admitted that he was in the photo , then backtracked in one of the most bizarre public press conferencesever .
The regulator has refused to mistreat down , and other politician in Virginia have amount forward , let in the Attorney General Mark Herring , to say they ’ve get into blackface before as well .
How do we fuck that the viral pic does n’t show Bill and Hillary ? Because we have center . It ’s not them . But it is super racist .
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4) Is this a horse fish found washed up on the beach?
The ocean is filled with terrifying creatures . We ’ve looked at plenty of them hereat Gizmodo . But this so - holler gymnastic horse fish , which has snuff it viral on societal medium , is 100 percent faux .
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First spotted by viral debunkerHoaxEye , this TV actually show a sculpture by creative person Juan Cabana . The artist ’s site seem to be down , but you could see the carving on the Wayback Machine , which archived the photofrom 2013 .
5) IsthisOnondaga Lake in Syracuse, New York?
If you ’ve ever been to Syracuse , you ’d know this is not a photo of Syracuse . Not even skinny . But that did n’t stop someone from post a video claim exactly that . Why ? It looks like the original poster was joke . But that did n’t stop people from taking it seriously .
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Syracuse.comeven posted about the video , over with its own debunker . The news site mentions that the picture has racked up over 13 million views , which intend that you’re able to probably bet a fair issue of the great unwashed believe this video is from New York . The video actually indicate Bora Bora in French Polynesia .
Onondaga Lake apparently looks a little different , as you could see from the Associated Press pic below . In fact , the lake has the ominous eminence as one of the most polluted body of water in the United States .
6) Did actor Kurt Russell call Democratsenemies of the state?
Right wing societal media has been partake in a computer graphic of Kurt Russell lately , saying that the Democrats want to abolish the 1st Amendment ( which encompass freedom of voice communication and organized religion ) , the 2nd Amendment ( which covers guns ) , the quaternary amendment ( which covers privacy ) , the 5th Amendment ( which cover self - blame ) , and the 6th Amendment ( which covers the right to a rapid public test ) .
That ’s quite a lean , but it does n’t stop there . The graphic also claims that Democrats want to get rid of the Senate , the electoral college , the Supreme Court , borders , and ICE . The only problem ? Russell never said any of that .
The Facebook groupAmerica ’s Last line of descent of Defensepublished one of the most viral translation of the photo and has so far rack up over 16,000 share . As Snopespoints out , a alike thought was expressed on a bogus Twitter account that used a photo of Kurt Russell as its embodiment . The report was n’t fly the coop by Russell .
Russell has antecedently described himself as alibertarianin audience and says that he does n’t like when actors babble out about politics . So if you see citation from him calling one side or the other “ enemies of the nation ” you may desire to be skeptical . He belike did n’t say that . And in this subject , he decidedly did n’t say it .
7) Was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fired from Hot Dog on a Stickin 2008?
The Baby Boomers social media seem obsessed with new Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio - Cortez . They do n’t care her policy of democratic socialism , and they especially do n’t care the fact that she ’s a cleaning woman . Conservatives also allege that she ’s dim and unqualified , perhaps well encapsulated by this image that ’s been doing the round exact that AOC was fired from the fast food chain Hot Dog on a Stick . Needless to say , this picture does n’t even show her at all .
Where to even commence ? Perhaps with the fact that the photo does n’t look like AOC . But if you need further validation let ’s soar upwards and enhance like we ’re in a 1990s computer crime drama .
Closer …
Okay , computer , enhance .
There it is . The name on her hat say Stephanie . And as you might know rather intuitively , Stephanie is not the same name as Alexandria .
The pic seem to have originated on Flickr and was post as earlyas 2008 . The double is also tagged with references to tumbler pigeon derby in Los Angeles . Again , I ca n’t conceive we have to say this , but that ’s not AOC .
But it seems like Trump supporters will consider anything negative about AOC . Here ’s just one deterrent example from a recentbulletin board postabout her :
Of couse Snopes says it ’s faux . Anything negatively charged about liberalism , communism , demoncraps , or whatever they believe is flatly stated simulated . They ’re a shill for LSM and have ties to Soros , and othe NWO organizations .
Better luck next clip , Boomers .
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