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  • 2018-07-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did the Obamas Wear Che Guevara Shirts During a Cuban Trip? (en)
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  • In July 2018, an image purportedly showing the Obama family in Cuba wearing shirts bearing the likeness of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara was widely shared on social media: Despite the obviously poor digital editing job used to create this image, a Facebook post featuring it racked up more than 20,000 shares within two days of its initial July 2018 posting. But this same photograph had been online since at least April 2016, when it was posted (on April Fool's Day, no less) by a junk news web site called Article 107 News as part of an article claiming that the Obamas had returned from their trip to Cuba with several Che Guevara souvenirs: This report was as fake as the photograph is. Article 107 News is a satire website, and not only do they carry the slogan The Facts Before they Happen at the top of their page, they also state in a disclaimer that you shouldn’t believe anything we publish is real: This doctored image was based on a genuine photograph of the Obama family arriving at the White House after a trip to Martha's Vineyard in August 2015. Here's a comparison of the doctored image (right) and the genuine photograph (left): This was hardly the first time that President Obama had been dressed in controversial clothing thanks to the work of photo editing. In March 2015, shortly after President Obama's historic trip to Cuba, another doctored image purportedly showing the president holding a Che Guevara shirt was shared by Texas politician Sid Miller. Fake photographs depicting the president in a pimp outfit and an Aleister Crowley shirt have also been shared online. (en)
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