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  • 2022-03-29 (xsd:date)
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  • No, these aren’t photos of celebrities reacting to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock (en)
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  • A grid showing the shocked faces of 12 celebrities is being shared on social media with the claim it shows actors, actresses and directors reacting to Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock at the Academy Awards on March 27. But we did reverse image searches of the aghast faces and found that’s not the case. These posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) This grid of photos has been online since 2017, when Moonlight won Best Picture at the Oscars. But that night, La La Land was first wrongly named as the award’s winner and its producers were making their acceptance speeches when it was revealed that there had been a mistake — Moonlight was the actual winner. Actors including Matt Damon, Dwayne Johnson, Busy Phillips, Meryl Streep, Salma Hayek and David Oyelowo were all reacting to the blunder. We rate these posts False. (en)
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