{"id":1509708,"date":"2022-06-09T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T19:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1509708"},"modified":"2022-06-09T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T19:52:41","slug":"fact-check-does-this-picture-show-hundreds-of-people-floating-down-the-guadalupe-river-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-picture-show-hundreds-of-people-floating-down-the-guadalupe-river-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Picture Show Hundreds Of People Floating Down The Guadalupe River In Texas?"},"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\">32<\/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-picture-show-hundreds-of-people-floating-down-the-guadalupe-river-in-texas%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=1509708&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\/FoxSportsRadio1400Texarkana\/photos\/a.461136117334447\/5158498250931520\/?type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 590 times purportedly shows the Guadalupe River in Texas crowded with people in floats.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The picture was captured several years ago in Finland, not in Texas recently.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The June 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FoxSportsRadio1400Texarkana\/photos\/a.461136117334447\/5158498250931520\/?type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a>, which has garnered over 1,100 reactions on Facebook, includes an image that appears to show a river crowded with hundreds of people sitting in rafts and inflatable tubes. \u201cGuadalupe River in New Braunfels, Tx this weekend,\u201d reads the image\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>This picture does not show the Guadalupe River, nor was it taken recently. Rather, it appears to have been taken in Finland several years ago. A reverse image search revealed the picture was shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscoverFinland\/status\/890537733466316800\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> by Discover Finland, a local tourism organization, in July 2017. \u201cWhat kind of activities do you think people can enjoy in Finland? Lots!!\u201d the post\u2019s caption reads. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/07\/06\/fact-check-image-sphinx-statue-colorado-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A Sphinx Statue Found In The Colorado River?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaljakellunta.org\/en\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> also appears on the official website of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaljakellunta.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaljakellunta<\/a>, a \u201cbeer floating festival\u201d that occurs annually in the rivers near Helsinki, Finland, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/travelaway.me\/kaljakellunta-beer-floating-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travel Away<\/a>. The word Kaljakellunta comes from the Finnish word for \u201cKalja,\u201d meaning beer, and \u201cKellunta,\u201d meaning floating, according to the event\u2019s website. The festival was started in 1997 and attracts thousands of people each year.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaljakellunta website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaljakellunta.org\/en\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">features<\/a> several similar photos and videos of the festival from previous years, many from an aerial vantage point. Meanwhile, genuine footage of the Guadalupe River in Texas can be seen on the Texas Parks and Wildlife <a href=\"https:\/\/tpwd.texas.gov\/state-parks\/guadalupe-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 590 times purportedly shows the Guadalupe River in Texas crowded with people in floats.Verdict: False The picture was captured several years ago in Finland,<\/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-1509708","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\/1509708","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=1509708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509708\/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=1509708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}