A New York Times published a ‘fact-check’ from a widely-shared fake Trump photo during a hurricane recovery.
Conservatives happily revealed various other apparent Trump memes for NYT to validate.
Kevin Roose, NYT’s business reporter, who has undertaken blogging about social network sites and also United States governmental policies, set off a barrage of memes and primarily ironical remarks in Twitter after he re-posted a photo of Donald Trump handing a MAGA hat to a unnamed victim of a hurricane standing waist-deep in soiled rainwater’s.
The authentic picture was actually taken during the course of the Texas flood of 2015, and the doctored variation resurfaced at the time of Hurricane Harvey.
Roose tweeted that the modified picture has already been shared 275,000 times in Facebook, implying the social networks titan might or should administer the exact same resources that it makes use of to fight ‘revenge porn’ ” to stop undoubtedly fake photos from going viral.”
