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Fake photos and miscaptioned pictures are common on social media, but on April Fools' Day they can be difficult to escape. As a number of companies posted obviously humorous content for the annual prank holiday (such as non-existent invisible earbuds or a new mayonnaise made with Butterfingers), some fake photos were shared online that took a more discerning eye to detect. The following photo of two large British Naval aircraft carriers and one tiny French ship, for example, was mistaken as genuine by a number of social media users in April 2022: This is not a genuine photograph of three naval ships. The small ship in the middle is a digital addition. The above-displayed April Fools' Day joke was created by altering a genuine photograph from May 2021 of two British aircraft carriers, the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, after a naval exercise. An article posted to the website of Britain's Royal Navy reads: We were able to find the original photograph by performing a reverse image search. Here's the genuine photo: Allison, who posted the above-displayed image for April Fools' Day, created this fake picture back in May 2021 for the UK Defense Journal. Here's the original post:
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