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  • 2020-03-31 (xsd:date)
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  • Photo of ‘Covid-19’ train tanker manipulated (en)
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  • A screenshot with a photo of a train tanker that seems to have COVID-19 stamped on its side has been widely shared on Facebook and WhatsApp. The text above the photo reads : This photo taken in kansas in America in September 2019 something doesn’t add up. LET’S OPEN OUR EYES! One Facebook user commented : #TRUTH SHALL COME OUT ONE DAY. Another wrote : THE WORLD NEEDS AN EXPLANATION. But does the photo have anything to do with the Covid-19 pandemic ? ‘This picture is fake’ A reverse image search leads to photos of similar rail tanker cars owned by the US train company GATX . Looking closer, it’s clear that the photo shows a GATX tanker, with its distinctive vertical yellow lines: Our fact-checker colleagues at AFP contacted GATX about the Covid-19 tanker photo. GATX is aware of a manipulated image being circulated on the internet, and please note that this picture is a fake, the company told AFP . COVID stencilled on train ‘would not meet standard’ Associated Press asked Railinc , an organisation that keeps data on the North American railroad industry, if they had a record of a train with COVID-19 stencilled on the side. We have no mark registered in our system that matches to COVID, Railinc told AP by email. Further, the rules governing registered marks only allow for 2-4 alphanumeric characters. COVID would not meet that standard. – Taryn Willows (en)
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