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  • 2021-04-28 (xsd:date)
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  • This image of a landslide in Taiwan has been doctored to insert a house (en)
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  • An image shared thousands of times on Facebook purports to show a house that is up for sale, perched on top of landslide rubble. The image, however, has been doctored. The original image has appeared in news reports about a 2010 landslide in Taiwan and does not show a house. The image was published here on Facebook on April 24, 2021. It was shared more than 2,500 times. The image's caption reads: For sale: two story house. Quick access to Highway. A screenshot of the misleading post as of April 27, 2021. The image was also shared here and here on Facebook. However, the image has been doctored. A reverse search on Yandex found the original image appears in this April 25, 2010 article from UK newspaper The Telegraph. The Telegraph credits the image to Reuters news agency. A landslide covers National Highway No. 3 close to Keelung in north Taiwan. Rescuers are searching for passengers in three cars buried when a hillside collapsed, the image's caption reads. The image was digitally altered to insert the house on top of the landslide rubble. Below is a comparison of the image in the misleading posts (L) and the photograph in the Telegraph article (R): The same image of the landslide was also published by NBC News and British newspaper Metro . The landslide struck north Taiwan between Taipei and Keelung on April 25, 2010 , cutting through a highway and killing four people. An archived document here from Taiwan’s Freeway Bureau shows several images of the clean-up operation in the days following the landslide. None of the images feature a house. A screenshot of the Freeway Bureau document (en)
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