Left-wing celebrities pushed a ton of falsehoods in the midst of the Amazon burning.
France24:
(1) https://perma.cc/D93C-AYL7
Chile’s president, Sebastian Pinera, also ended up tweeting a misleading image to issue a warning about the fires, using a photograph (2) by Reuters journalist Nacho Doce from 2013.
(2) https://perma.cc/6D8D-39L8
– Actors –
Leonardo DiCaprio shared two pictures that proved to be inaccurate — the first (3) was the same one shared by Macron while the second (4) was shot in the Peruvian city of Puerto Maldonado in 2016.
Peru is not currently affected by the fires, though authorities are “on alert”.
(3) https://perma.cc/Z24S-L6PM
(4) https://perma.cc/P2CG-ZHA9
Actor and rapper Jaden Smith, son of superstar Will Smith, posted a dramatic image (5) on Instagram that shows a vast forest on fire as huge columns of smoke rise from it. But the photo, which has garnered more than 1.5 million likes, dates back to 1989.
(5) https://perma.cc/CZD3-6PZZ
Argentine actress and singer Martina Stoessel also shared an old photo (6) with a Twitter post saying, “How sad to see this…”. That picture was shot by Getty Images photographer Mario Toma in 2014.
(6) https://perma.cc/3YLS-H8SG
– Sports stars –
F1 driver Lewis Hamilton (7) and Brazil soccer captain Dani Alves (8) also posted one of the most widely shared misleading images — the picture taken by photographer McIntyre before 2003.
(7) https://perma.cc/S5UF-GTTB
(8) https://perma.cc/F67M-TTZU
Meanwhile tennis star Novak Djokovic (9) shared the 1989 photo posted by Smith.
(9) https://perma.cc/SCS9-KPEW
Portuguese soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo sounded the alarm on Instagram, alerting his 180 million followers that “the Amazon Rainforest produces more than 20% of the world’s oxygen and its been burning for the past 3 weeks.” But the photo (10) accompanying his message was taken on March 29, 2013 by Lauro Alves, from the Brazilian agency RBS, in the non-Amazonian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
(10) https://perma.cc/5H4H-GKTB
Barca striker Luis Suarez also posted an old photo (11) dating back to 2015 and shot by journalist Nacho Doce.
(11) https://perma.cc/3TVF-4TSR
– Singers –
Puerto Rican pop star Ricky Martin (13) and Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello (14) also shared the McIntyre photo tweeted by Macron, DiCaprio and Alves.
(13) https://perma.cc/2L2Y-58KL
(14) https://perma.cc/LVH8-CCW2
US superstar Madonna posted the same 1989 image (15) shared by Smith and Djokovic, writing on Instagram: “President Bolsonaro please change your policies and help not only your country but the entire planet. No economic development is more important than protecting this land.”
“We need to WAKE -UP!!” she wrote.
(15) https://perma.cc/SNZ2-3KV4
Some Celebrities are by far the dumbest among us. They sit in their mansions behind massive walls sharing Fake News propaganda regarding everything that is going on in the world. No issue though, millions will consume this and believe it to be fact.
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