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Maybe not fake. but exaggerated? yeah you really can. Even the merest hint of incorrectness can be jumped on and amplified.
"a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on. " Terry Pratchett.
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You can't seriously counter-claim or say the scenario is fake or exaggerated if you can see the fucking smoke from space.
I dunno. Snopes reports that NASA recons that the fire activity overall is below average in the last fifteen years.
I think it would be really help, when sharing what we consider to be news, to use images of the actual news as per convention, and not use images of something else or images of a similar thing but from a different time, should we want to avoid inadvertently sending out a strong bullshit signal.
jaitch
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@andyfallsoff & @jaitch
again yes, it's important to be precise in my opinion - and in an ideal world even on Instagram people would double check everything before posting.
yet in a case like this, where the whole situation is backed up by sattelite imagery and it's fucking happening on such a large scale does it really make a difference whether the picture of burning rainforest is from today or not?
You can't seriously counter-claim or say the scenario is fake or exaggerated if you can see the fucking smoke from space.