A brief overview of the problem is that there is a photograph of a famous celebrity by the name of Tom Hanks who greatly impacts many people’s lives and most likely the decisions they make is shown in the photograph wearing a navy colored t-shirt that was falsely altered into saying “KEEP AMERICA TRUMPLESS” with a huge picture of the American flag in the middle of the shirt; the original image was of Hanks just wearing a plain navy colored loose t-shirt. “Reuters has previously addressed digitally altered images that appear to show celebrities, including Hanks, wearing t-shirts with political messages”. “Reuters News has a fact-checking unit within its editorial department. The principal aim of this unit is to fact-check visual material and claims posted on social media. The fact checking producers in this unit report their findings on a section of the Reuters.com website.” I think that regardless of what website decides to put whatever images out there it is best to add the specific information such as where the picture was found, where it was taken, when it was taken as well as how this came about to become such a large topic. Somebody as famous as Tom Hanks is not the only person who was put in an uncomfortable position showcasing something that he never actually wore and may not even truly believe in. “One user shared the altered image on Twitter on Sept. 14, 2022, with a caption that reads: “Is that you tome [sic] hanks?…how about we keep america hanksless!!!!…” (here). The tweet had more than 2,000 likes at the time of writing.” By something like this happening can tarnish someone’s career that they have worked towards for a very long time. This also just goes to show you how manipulative people can be through taking very famous celebrities, putting a fake news report out there and so many people around the world will believe in what they are seeing on the internet and run with that information that will spread like wildfire. Eventually, people won’t know what to believe anymore because there will be so many fake stories out there. Typically, people can easily come up with a fake news story and be able to add anything they want to it to make it sound more interesting because it is fake, but they don’t think about the fact that they can ruin someone’s life with it.
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https://www.politico.com/interactives/2018/is-this-true/tom-hanks-antitrump-doctored/
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