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Hurricanes tend to blow dozens of mislabeled and manipulated storm photographs around the internet.
by Snopes Staff, May 29, 2018
Every summer when hurricanes start swirling in the world's oceans, internet users are subjected to a flood of fake photographs. Here's a look at some of the most popular miscaptioned, doctored, and outdated photographs that we've come across over the years.
By Snopes Staff
Oct. 27, 2022
If a hurricane is headed for Florida, this creative digital artwork showin ...
Sept. 28, 2022
This fabricated photo was making the rounds well before anyone claimed it was taken during Hurri ...
Aug. 29, 2011
A much-repurposed photograph of a shark swimming down a flooded highway after a hurricane is a fake.
Sept. 12, 2017
A video purportedly showing sharks swimming in a flooded area of Miami after Irma passed through ...
Sept. 13, 2017
In 2017, a website falsely claimed to be showing live footage of a mass crab migration in the af ...
Sept. 11, 2017
A web site passed off a video shot in Canada in 2011 as "live footage" of a storm that lashed Fl ...
Oct. 12, 2018
A photograph of an approaching storm is real, but it was taken months before Hurricane Michael m ...
Oct. 16, 2017
A video showing a little girl hanging on to a door on a windy day is real, but it was not captur ...
Sept. 1, 2017
A photograph appears to show President Trump on a raft in Texas saving a flood victim after Hurr ...
Sept. 19, 2017
An image purportedly showing a 30-foot wave crashing down on Jennette's Pier in North Carolina i ...
Sept. 7, 2017
An image of a news ticker reading "Hurricane Florence now contains sharks" is a recycled fake.
Sept. 5, 2017
Is President Trump enough of a feline lover to go wading out into floodwaters to rescue a pair o ...
Oct. 11, 2018
Some social media users recycled an old, digitally-edited photograph that misled viewers in Octo ...
May 29, 2018
An image purportedly showing a huge, ominous storm approaching a Florida beach town is actually ...
