Fauxtography and trump lies

christiefan915

christiefan915

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Lying liars, aka trump supporters, at it again.

Is this a photo of an October 16, 2020 rally for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign in Ocala, Florida? No, that's not true: It's a photo of crowds on a bridge at a 2019 music festival in Switzerland called Street Parade. The Trump rally was conducted at an airport. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) where it was published on October 16, 2020.


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christiefan915 said:
Lying liars, aka trump supporters, at it again.
The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) where it was published on October 16, 2020.
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are you sure?......nothing seems to be there.....are you perhaps a lying liar?......

I wonder if that was one of those Iranian social media posts.......
 
christiefan915 said:
Lying liars, aka trump supporters, at it again.

Is this a photo of an October 16, 2020 rally for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign in Ocala, Florida? No, that's not true: It's a photo of crowds on a bridge at a 2019 music festival in Switzerland called Street Parade. The Trump rally was conducted at an airport. The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) where it was published on October 16, 2020.


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This was leaked from Trump’s happy folder ;)
 
Is this a photo of Joe Biden's house? Eric trump thinks so but real estate records don't lie. #alltrumpsareliars

@EricTrump

https://twitter.com/x/status/1317482157812613122

However Eric Trump was wrong on all counts: the pictured home was not currently owned by Joe Biden, it was not his current residence, and the property was — at one time — not outrageously outside Biden’s price range.

The pictured estate was a 5-bedroom, 10,000-square-foot former DuPont mansion at 6 Montchan Dr. in the Greenville area of Wilmington, Delaware, which was formerly owned by Biden. Way back in 1974, Biden (then a freshman U.S. Senator and a recent widower) was able to purchase the property for a mere $185,000 because the abandoned home was badly run-down and in need of major repairs.

After fixing up the home and living in it for two decades, Biden sold it in 1996 for $1.2 million — well over twenty years before Eric Trump’s accusatory tweet declaring it to still be “Joe Biden’s house.”
 
christiefan915 said:
Is this a photo of Joe Biden's house? Eric trump thinks so but real estate records don't lie. #alltrumpsareliars

@EricTrump

https://twitter.com/x/status/1317482157812613122

However Eric Trump was wrong on all counts: the pictured home was not currently owned by Joe Biden, it was not his current residence, and the property was — at one time — not outrageously outside Biden’s price range.

The pictured estate was a 5-bedroom, 10,000-square-foot former DuPont mansion at 6 Montchan Dr. in the Greenville area of Wilmington, Delaware, which was formerly owned by Biden. Way back in 1974, Biden (then a freshman U.S. Senator and a recent widower) was able to purchase the property for a mere $185,000 because the abandoned home was badly run-down and in need of major repairs.

After fixing up the home and living in it for two decades, Biden sold it in 1996 for $1.2 million — well over twenty years before Eric Trump’s accusatory tweet declaring it to still be “Joe Biden’s house.”
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Now that’s how to flip a house!
 
Starting in September 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, social media users began circulating a photograph purporting to show Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden meeting with various government officials “last night,” with none of them wearing face masks to prevent spreading the virus:

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The photograph is a genuine one, showing Biden with his hand on the shoulder of Dennis Archer, Jr. (son of former Detroit mayor Dennis Archer), with Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer visible in the background. However, the picture was not taken in Washington, D.C., nor in the latter part of 2020. It was snapped in Detroit earlier in the year, before both COVID-19 cases began to be reported in that state, and before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began advising Americans to wear face coverings.

This image is from March 9, 2020, and captures a fundraiser held at the Detroit Athletic Club. Michigan did not report its first (presumptive) positive cases of COVID-19 (and declare a state of emergency) until the following day, the CDC did not first recommend that Americans begin wearing cloth or fabric face coverings in public spaces until April 3, and Michigan did not begin requiring the wearing of facemasks until April 24.

#trumpsupportersareliars
 
On Aug. 31, 2020, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Director of Social Media Dan Scavino posted a manipulated video that supposedly showed 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden falling asleep during a live television interview:

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The clip of Biden comes from the 2020 Democratic National Convention. The manipulated footage appears to show Biden sleeping, but it’s clear in the original footage that Biden was never actually asleep. The segment used in the manipulated footage comes from the moment during the DNC in which former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed Biden for president. In the full video from C-SPAN, Biden can be seen momentarily looking downward, but it doesn’t appear that he ever actually falls asleep.

The video shared by Scavino loops together a few seconds of footage from this video in which Biden either has his eyes closed or is looking downward and then plays it beneath unrelated audio of a person snoring. Although Scavino did help spread this manipulated footage, he didn’t create it. It appears that this video was created by Twitter user @damonimani. When @damonimani was asked if this video was real on Twitter, he replied that it was “technically” real..

We’re not sure how taking footage of someone who momentarily had their eyes closed, falsely claiming that they were sleeping, placing that footage into unrelated context, creating fake chyrons, adding a snoring sound effect, and then presenting the altered video as if it showed someone “taking a little nap” during a live TV interview could be considered a genuine reflection of reality, technically speaking.
 
A photograph captures mounds of refuse and other trash left behind by protesters in Seattle's "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone."

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Many social media posts have repackaged the likely aftermath of a trash fire on the corner of West and Huron Streets in Greenpoint as a scene from Seattle’s protests. Manny Lorras, a tenant in the building complex near the corner of West and Huron Streets, confirmed that the image is “1000%” of the building on that corner. He also thinks it “has to be” the trash fire that occurred on that street on June 2 of this year.

“When the fire department came … the hose pressure blew out the window,” he explained, having received much of his information about the fire from one of the doorman in his building complex. Building management boarded up the broken window that day, Lorras says. Whoever took the photograph must have snapped it soon after the fire department came, according to Lorras’s version of events. (A window in the image is shattered.)

#repugsareliars
 
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A photograph shows maskless Democrats at the funeral of U.S. Rep. John Lewis in July 2020.

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However, this photograph was not taken during Lewis’ funeral on July 30, 2020, but was taken in 2015. Masks were not commonplace (or necessary) in the United States in 2015, which predated the COVID-19 pandemic by about five years.

This photograph was taken in September 2015 at the funeral of Helen Burns Jackson, the mother of Rev. Jesse Jackson, at the Springfield Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina. This photographer was Heidi Heilbrunn of the Greenville News, and the picture is available with the following caption:

President Bill Clinton, left, sits next to Rev. Jesse Jackson during the homegoing service for Jackson’s mother, Helen Burns Jackson, at Springfield Baptist Church on Monday, September 14, 2015. HEIDI HEILBRUNN/STAFF


#repugsareliars
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In July 2020, a photograph supposedly showing then-U.S. President Barack Obama, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Melinda Gates at a laboratory in Wuhan, China, in 2015 started to circulate on social media:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1282633518556884993

This is a genuine photograph of Obama and Fauci — but it was not taken in Wuhan, China, in 2015. Also, the woman in the red shirt is not Melinda Gates. This photograph was taken in December 2014 at the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and shows Obama and Fauci with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell and Chief of the Biodefense Research Section Nancy Sullivan.

The photograph is available via the NIH Director’s blog, where it is accompanied by the following caption: “Dr. Nancy Sullivan of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) discussing Ebola research with President Barack Obama as NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell look on.”

#repugsareliars
 
Nice breakdown, Christiefan. Goes to show us what gullible morons the Trumptards are. I'm really glad that social media is starting to crack down on these true fake news memes.
 
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