{"id":1449124,"date":"2022-04-21T12:55:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449124"},"modified":"2022-04-21T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:55:47","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-face-shaped-rock-formations-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-face-shaped-rock-formations-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Face-Shaped Rock Formations In California?"},"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-does-this-image-show-face-shaped-rock-formations-in-california%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=1449124&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:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ImpresssiveOcean\/posts\/pfbid0grUSNuXdM6WiP41dYDrupRqrvDExkZxDzNeLYf6GBPk8UaU472tAQ8GA4JRkP229l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show two rocky outcrops in the shape of faces located in Pacific Grove, California.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image is a digitally altered version of a photo taken in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image, which has been shared over 34,000 times, shows two adjacent cliffs that appear to form the shape of human faces. \u201cThey are on the shoreline of Pacific Grove, California, and the most romantic spot in the United States,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally altered and does not show a location in California. A reverse image search reveals the original, unedited version of the photo can be found in a December 2013 Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/article-2527199\/Blessed-Thailand-hypnotic-land-sublime-islands-swanky-resorts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> titled \u201cBlessed in Thailand, the hypnotic land of sublime islands and swanky resorts.\u201d Notably, the cliffs are not face-shaped in the original image. The article goes on to identify the location of the photo as Phi Phi Le, an island in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/this-picture-taken-on-october-4-2019-shows-national-parks-news-photo\/1174961680?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/this-aerial-picture-taken-on-november-26-2021-shows-news-photo\/1237060403?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photos<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/this-picture-taken-on-october-4-2019-shows-the-boundary-news-photo\/1174483637?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">various cliffs<\/a> on the island, none of which resemble the Facebook image. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/10\/27\/fact-check-photo-tornado-wasco-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Photo Show A Tornado In Wasco, California?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a rock formation known as the \u201ckissing rock\u201d located in Pacific Grove, California that has been called the \u201cmost romantic spot in America,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/kissing-rock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Atlas Obscura<\/a>. The rock does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/greensaint\/6889598607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fotospot.com\/attractions\/california\/the-kissing-rock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resemble<\/a> the image shared on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a viral post has claimed an altered image shows a real location. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/03\/16\/fact-check-image-rainbow-mountain-peru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> recently debunked a viral image that claimed to show Peru\u2019s \u201cRainbow Mountain\u201d but actually showed an altered image of a cliff in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims to show two rocky outcrops in the shape of faces located in Pacific Grove, California.Verdict: False The image is a digitally altered version of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":1449159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449124","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\/1449124","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=1449124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}