- Fake photos of Hurricane Sandy 2012
- Deja vu
- There’s the reused image, like this one, which is in fact a promotional still taken from the 2004 action film The Day After Tomorrow.
- Cut-and-paste
- Or there’s the doctored image – here a supercell thunderstorm in Nebraska has been merged with one of the Statue of Liberty. (Tip: check lighting in foreground and background)
- Storm warning
- … or this real-life reused image, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal in April 2011 showing a thunderstorm in New York City through a tinted window.
- Look closer
- Fake natural-disaster images have gone viral before. Pictures taken in 2002 resurfaced during the 2004 tsunami in South Asia. One giveaway? People are smiling in this image.
- More sharks
- A double photo-fake whammy here: not only is the shark pasted into the flooded street, this image also appeared after Hurricane Irene hit Puerto Rico in August 2011.
- Lone shark
- Sharks have featured heavily in faked photos. This fearsome fin supposedly swimming through the streets of Brigantine, New Jersey, was pasted into the image.
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