{"id":1141441,"date":"2021-12-22T09:49:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141441"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:49:31","slug":"fact-check-no-julian-assange-was-not-chosen-as-time-magazines-person-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-julian-assange-was-not-chosen-as-time-magazines-person-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, Julian Assange Was Not Chosen As Time Magazine\u2019s Person Of The Year"},"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\">30<\/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-julian-assange-was-not-chosen-as-time-magazines-person-of-the-year%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=1141441&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--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10223841629086870&amp;set=gm.3064875340462407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 800 times purportedly shows Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on the cover of Time Magazine and named as Person of the Year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7340930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7340930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The cover has been digitally fabricated. Time Magazine has chosen Elon Musk as its 2021 Person of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. on Dec. 10 won its appeal in extraditing Assange from the U.K., according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-59608641\">BBC News<\/a>. Assange will face an 18-count indictment and a possible sentence of up to 175 years for publishing classified documents in 2010 and 2011, and allegedly conspiring to hack into U.S. military databases, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>A Dec. 17 Facebook post shows what appears to be Assange on the cover of Time Magazine named as the publication\u2019s Person of the Year. Text on the supposed cover reads, \u201cThe Fight for Truth and Justice: A Life in Isolation.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/12\/06\/fact-check-michigan-wolverines-time-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Were University Of Michigan Football Fans Featured On The Cover Of Time Magazine?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cover, however, is not genuine. Check Your Fact searched the publication\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/vault\/subject\/person-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital vault<\/a> of Person of the Year covers but found no matches for the Facebook image. Furthermore, the image in the Facebook post does not include a date for the issue in the upper-right corner, as seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/magazine\/us\/5921295\/december-21st-2020-vol-196-no-23-u-s\/\">genuine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/magazine\/us\/5748137\/december-23rd-2019-vol-194-no-27-u-s\/\">Time<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/magazine\/us\/5476609\/december-24th-2018-vol-193-no-26-asia-europe-middle-east-and-africa-south-pacific-u-s\/\">Magazine<\/a> covers.<\/p>\n<p>Time Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk\/\">announced<\/a> on Dec. 13 that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is its 2021 Person of the Year. The cover can be seen in the Dec. 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/person-of-the-year-2021-elon-musk\/\">article<\/a>.&nbsp;Kiasia Truluck, media spokesperson for Time, confirmed this in an email to Check Your Fact, stating, \u201cElon Musk was named TIME Person of the Year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Assange has never appeared on the cover of Time\u2019s Person of the Year edition of the magazine, he did win the annual Time reader\u2019s poll for Person of the Year in <a href=\"https:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2010\/12\/13\/julian-assange-readers-choice-for-times-person-of-the-year-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2010<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/4578520\/julian-assange-donald-trump-person-of-the-year-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016<\/a>, according to articles written by the magazine. The reader\u2019s poll is \u201ca way for readers to voice their own opinions on who has made the greatest impact on the world,\u201d though Time\u2019s editors make the final decision, the publication states. CEO and co-founder of Meta <a href=\"http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/completelist\/0,29569,2036683,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> was chosen in 2010 and former <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/magazine\/us\/4594940\/december-19th-2016-vol-188-no-25-26-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Donald Trump<\/a> was chosen in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The fake cover appears to have been created on a website called <a href=\"https:\/\/magazineyourself.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magazine Yourself<\/a>, which allows users to create fake, customizable magazine covers. One of the website\u2019s numerous templates is a Time Magazine Person of the Year cover that matches perfectly to that of the image shared on Facebook. The website\u2019s URL can also be seen below the barcode included in the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 800 times purportedly shows Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on the cover of Time Magazine and named as Person of the Year.Facebook\/ScreenshotVerdict: False The cover &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"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-1141441","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\/1141441","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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141441\/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=1141441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}