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

[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.