Amazon fires: how celebrities are spreading disinformation
"It is an international crisis. Members of the G7, let's talk in two days about this emergency," Macron said ahead of a planned summit this weekend in Biarritz.
But the photograph used by the French leader does not show this year's fires. A reverse image search showed that it was taken by the American photojournalist Loren McIntyre, known for his work for National Geographic.
Although the image search tool does not reveal when exactly the photograph was taken, McIntyre died in 2003, meaning the image is at least 16 years old.
Celebrities want political sway and politicians want celebrity status. How lonely does a person have to be though to just take anything most celebrities say at face value without any sort of research. Scary thought though is you now have to question most of the research.
