{"id":1068193,"date":"2021-11-30T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1068193"},"modified":"2021-11-30T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:29:02","slug":"fact-check-no-this-photo-was-not-taken-in-cape-verde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-photo-was-not-taken-in-cape-verde\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Photo Was Not Taken In Cape Verde"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-no-this-photo-was-not-taken-in-cape-verde%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=1068193&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>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoomafrika1\/status\/1461944627519438853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> purportedly shows Praia, Cape Verde.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.3673469387755\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Good Morning Africa From Praia The Capital City Of, Cape Verde \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DGNYEphe7S\">pic.twitter.com\/DGNYEphe7S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zoom Afrika (@zoomafrika1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoomafrika1\/status\/1461944627519438853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo actually shows part of Florian\u00f3polis, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Praia\">Praia<\/a> is capital of Cape Verde, a country comprised of a group of islands off the coast of western Africa. An image on Twitter claims to show a landscape of a city near the water.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet reads: \u201cGood Morning Africa From Praia The Capital City Of, Cape Verde.\u201d The same message and image have also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mahmutGemachu24\/posts\/312935433997589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a>&nbsp;on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The image does not, however, show Praia, Cape Verde. Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8865243@N02\/3422539020\">same image<\/a> published on Flickr in 2009 by a photographer named Rodrigo Soldon. The photo\u2019s caption explains it was taken from the Majestic Palace Hotel in Florian\u00f3polis, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the beach and buildings visible in the photo can be seen in a Google Maps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@-27.5830854,-48.5452788,3a,75y,213.59h,93.66t\/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZxyTJqlN7zOXdWXKW3t8RA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">street view<\/a> of Avenida Beira Mar Norte in Florian\u00f3polis.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/14\/fact-check-brazilians-resisting-coronavirus-restrictions-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show Brazilians Resisting Coronavirus Restrictions At The Beach?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President of Cape Verde Jose Maria Neves was sworn in on Nov. 9 after winning an election held on Oct. 18, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/cape-verde-president-stresses-stability-163523254.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFP<\/a>. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Angolan President Joao Lourenco both went to the ceremony, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a photo taken in Brazil has been incorrectly identified on social media. Check Your Fact in August <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/08\/24\/fact-check-anti-lockdown-protest-bondi-beach\/\">corrected<\/a> the false claim that a 2013 photo of crowds at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil\u2019s Copacabana beach showed an anti-lockdown protest on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Twitter purportedly shows Praia, Cape Verde. Good Morning Africa From Praia The Capital City Of, Cape Verde \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfb pic.twitter.com\/DGNYEphe7S \u2014 Zoom Afrika (@zoomafrika1) November 20, 2021Verdict: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"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-1068193","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\/1068193","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068193\/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=1068193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}