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An image shared on Facebook in Kenya shows four men pushing a cart carrying what seems to be a massive human skull. Huge skull discovered in Papua New Guinea in 1961, the caption reads. We've finally found the irrefutable evidence of a Giant!!! The post has been viewed nearly 20,000 times. But is the image evidence of a giant? We checked. Size Matters 2 design contest On the bottom left of the image is the URL for Worth1000 , a website that once featured Photoshop image manipulation competitions but is now part of the Design Crowd creative community. A TinEye reverse image search confirms that the image was an entry in one of the site’s competitions. A Google image search reveals that the image was submitted for the Size Matters 2 contest, in which designers were tasked with changing the size of something (or things) in an image in a way that was extraordinary, but not impossible. It received 91 Photoshop submissions from 73 designers. The giant skull image is credited to a designer with the screen handle Norrit. In the search results , Africa Check also found the original photo used for the manipulated image. In the original , the cart is carrying a large metal drum – not a huge skull. Africa Check has previously debunked other false claims that used manipulated images sourced from Worth1000 competitions. – Dancan Bwire
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