The photo pops up on your screen and your eyes nearly pop out of your head. Is that a great white shark swimming on a flooded highway? The person who posted the photo says it was taken after Hurricane Harvey slammed Texas in August 2017.
You immediately share the picture with your friends. But guess what? You’ve just fallen for a hoax. Someone used photo-editing software to combine a picture of the fearsome creature with one of a flooded road.
Hundreds of thousands of people have liked or shared the phony shark photo. It usually goes viral after big storms. It’s just one example of a growing problem online: fake photos.
The photo pops up on your screen. Your eyes nearly pop out of your head. Is that a great white shark swimming on a flooded highway? The person who posted the photo says it was taken after Hurricane Harvey. The storm slammed Texas in August 2017.
You immediately share the picture with your friends. But guess what? You’ve just fallen for a hoax. Someone used photo-editing software to combine a picture of the fearsome creature with one of a flooded road.
Hundreds of thousands of people have liked or shared the phony shark photo. It usually goes viral after big storms. It’s just one example of a growing problem online: fake photos.