7 Fake Hurricane Sandy Photos You’re Sharing on Social Media

Mashable.com ^ | October 29, 2012 | Annie Colbert

[Lazamataz]

Fake Hurricane Sandy photos flew around Twitter and Facebook on Monday, as users shared jaw-dropping images. Unfortunately, the race to post the most striking pics has most folks skipping the all-important fact check.

We’ve gathered up five “Hurricane Sandy” photographs that have spread on the social web, but weren’t actually taken during the massive storm.

Have you spotted a fake photograph? Tell us in the comments below

[Lazamataz]

Wait, what? THIS ONE IS REAL!!!!

[Doogle]

you forgot Odungo holding back the clouds

[bramps]

That is really great. Well done!

[CrazyIvan]

It's an obvious fake. The winds are blowing from South, the
flag in the lower right is pointing the wrong direction.

[shadeaud]

I knew that one was phoney right away when I saw the statue of that gal on top of a building holding a flashlight and a copy of obammas’ budget plan

[SJSAMPLE]

I shared the very first one (Tombs of the Unknowns). Gonna have to repost the correct photo.

[evets]

[Conan the Librarian]

And Bruce the Shark doesn’t have a Laser, so, he isn’t dangerous at all.

Just need to add the Cloverfield monster to make it just right.

[McGruff]

My Nephew posted this on Facebook. Sandy woke up Godzilla?

[GeronL]

awesome

[Leep]

Hundreds of Asian Babies Floating Around NYc is a fake?

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-02/09/xin_52020309062260120011.jpg

[ScottinVA]

Ah yes!!!! Godzilla is sneaking up on Neptune down at Virginia Beach! Heads up, Neppieeeeeee!!!

[Lazamataz]

This one is NOT well done; there is no laser attached to the frickin’ shark.

[CatherineofAragon]

What is Chris Christie doing standing next to the Statue of Liberty?

[Lazamataz]

One good wave and they are decapitated.

[jonatron]

LOL! thanks.

[Lazamataz]

My contribution to the Fake Sandy Photo Library:

[VanDeKoik]

Well heck this means I’ve not really seen an honest image of this storm until this article.

All the real ones look like a spring severe storm in the south. Stupid media hype.

[a fool in paradise]

Weegee did it first.

[a fool in paradise]

Albert Gore Junior done it seconded.

[JoeProBono]

[dangerdoc]

Can you post the pictures they are talking about, I can’t see them.

[Lazamataz]

They don’t post them, they simply describe them.

[Lazamataz]

BRILLIANT! :)

[TurboZamboni]

a co-worker showed me that yesterday and I said that was from “War of the Worlds”.

Dakota Fanning can still he heard screaming.

[Rightly Biased]

I don’t see anything wrong with that picture at all its just as vivid as what Matt Bin Laurdin was explaining the devastation to be.

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

Photo is actually from September 18th.

[a fool in paradise]

This photo is the same location with yesterday's rain.

[a fool in paradise]

The photo of the statue of liberty with the huge storm cloud above it (and the speedboat in the foreground). Ceiling Cat, Godzilla, etc. have been additionally shooped into it in this thread.

[a fool in paradise]

Variations on flooded McDonald's are all from an art installation project.

[bmwcyle]

Who believes NYC flies the American Flag anymore?

[zeugma]

bfl. Saw some good ones yesterday.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Where is Looter Guy ? He be missing, yo.

[Surrounded_too]

A lot of regular people are political prisoners in ‘blue states’.

[Lazamataz]

I did the Ceiling Cat one.

[bmwcyle]

Do you understand sarcasm?

[DainBramage]

[wardaddy]

I lived in Manhattan for 8 years and Miami for 4-5

and Nashville for 9

been 4 years now out more rural and would like to be even further out

you should move

this is where real America is...trust me...what is left of it

i’m just sorry i wasted most of my adult life figuring it out

if I want city...i can be downtown Nashville in 40 min

out here...it's about 50-50 north/south mix and the midwesterners tend to be decent folks

and we vote 70-80% R

in urban areas ...even Salt Lake ...it will be the reverse of that

so why bother

Nashville is Austin on the Cumberland...they are as twin sisters as exist two cities in America

[Yaelle]

Is that your deck? That is some shocking damage. Hopefully soon the storm will stop and you can get out there and begin to repair it.

[WOSG]

Obama fell down? poor guy.

[dangerdoc]

Ahh, I thought it was the firewalls at work again.

The whole a picture is worth a thousands words applies.

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[Slings and Arrows]

Where’s Lootie?

[Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage]

WHAT! NOT REAL!?

[Titan Magroyne]

bmfl