{"id":1023226,"date":"2021-11-17T11:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1023226"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:58:54","slug":"fact-check-did-germany-make-this-ad-about-food-insecurity-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-germany-make-this-ad-about-food-insecurity-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Germany Make This Ad About Food Insecurity In America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-germany-make-this-ad-about-food-insecurity-in-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1023226&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nicolegates530\/posts\/10224302206555527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows an advertisement made by Germany about feeding Americans.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ad, which aired in the U.S., comes from an American nonprofit that seeks to end hunger and poverty.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post features a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@teresamorcho\/video\/7027650302811704581?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;q=%40teresamorcho&amp;t=1636672564818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral TikTok video<\/a> that has garnered over 1.9 million likes to date. In the TikTok, a comment overlaying the video reads, \u201cGermany is actually doing videos to help feed Americans.\u201d The narrator of the ad, supposedly made by Germany, describes in German the girl in the video as experiencing little access to nutritious food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c49 million Americans are struggling with food insecurity,\u201d the German-speaking narrator says in part, according to subtitles. \u201cThey are hungry for more than a meal. Hungry for change. America needs Germany\u2019s help. Now.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/08\/fact-check-bus-ad-pediatric-strokes-covid-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Facebook Post Attempts To Link Bus Ad About Pediatric Strokes To COVID-19 Vaccines)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the advertisement is real, it was not made by Germany. Through a keyword search of relevant terms, Check Your Fact found the ad on Ad Forum, where it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adforum.com\/creative-work\/ad\/player\/34514904\/germany-for-america\/great-nations-eat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lists<\/a>&nbsp;the campaign as \u201cGreat Nations Eat\u201d and the advertiser as \u201cShare Our Strength.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareourstrength.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share Our Strength<\/a>, a U.S. nonprofit that, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareourstrength.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its website<\/a>, seeks to end hunger and poverty, launched the \u201cGreat Nations Eat\u201d campaign in 2015, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/great-nations-eat-launches-unprecedented-billion-impression-media-campaign-in-2015-to-transform-the-conversation-around-hunger-in-america-300104454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ad in question, titled \u201cGermany for America,\u201d and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adforum.com\/creative-work\/ad\/player\/34514905\/slovenia-for-america\/great-nations-eat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">few<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adforum.com\/creative-work\/ad\/player\/34514903\/china-for-america\/great-nations-eat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adforum.com\/creative-work\/ad\/player\/34514906\/we-put-a-man-on-the-moon\/great-nations-eat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ads<\/a> were created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty, a creative agency in New York, for the \u201cGreat Nations Eat\u201d campaign launch. The ads aired in the U.S., according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/great-nations-eat-launches-unprecedented-billion-impression-media-campaign-in-2015-to-transform-the-conversation-around-hunger-in-america-300104454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the goal of the campaign was first and foremost awareness, the creative allows for the facts to evoke the emotion,\u201d the press release explains. \u201cThe campaign PSAs use an unconventional approach to contrast the problem of hunger in America versus other countries, surprising viewers with the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was really to try to think a little more disruptively to get people\u2019s attention, to go right to the heart of the issue that people are not aware hunger is a problem in the United States,\u201d Billy Shore, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareourstrength.org\/leaderships\/billy-shore-executive-chairman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive chair<\/a> of Share Our Strength, said of the ads in 2015, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3048452\/these-anti-hunger-ads-ask-people-in-other-countries-to-donate-to-help-feed-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fast Company<\/a>. The outlet also quoted him as saying, \u201cThe idea was to do something different, and point out that America can\u2019t be great on an empty stomach \u2013 really tap into this notion that it has to do with our strength as a nation, as a people, as a society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the United States, we constantly see PSA ads for other countries in need,\u201d Diego Fonseca, the art director for \u201cGermany for America,\u201d said in a post, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/german-ad-asking-feed-americans-goes-viral-tiktok-1647405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsweek<\/a>. \u201cTo showcase the shocking truth that other countries have better statistics regarding food equality, we created PSAs depicting America as the country in need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows an advertisement made by Germany about feeding Americans.Verdict: False The ad, which aired in the U.S., comes from an American nonprofit that seeks &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}