{"id":690721,"date":"2021-08-27T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T19:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=690721"},"modified":"2021-08-27T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T19:50:22","slug":"fact-check-no-this-image-of-a-greg-abbott-campaign-advertisement-on-the-back-of-a-tractor-trailer-carrying-bodies-is-not-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-image-of-a-greg-abbott-campaign-advertisement-on-the-back-of-a-tractor-trailer-carrying-bodies-is-not-real\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Image Of A Greg Abbott Campaign Advertisement On The Back Of A Tractor-Trailer Carrying Bodies Is Not Real"},"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\">44<\/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-image-of-a-greg-abbott-campaign-advertisement-on-the-back-of-a-tractor-trailer-carrying-bodies-is-not-real%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=690721&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Greg-Abbott-scaled-e1630009394346.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=1231397527298702&amp;id=100012853996176\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 1,000 times purportedly shows a tractor-trailer with an advertisement for Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on the back being loaded with dead bodies.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The advertisement was digitally added into the image. The original photo shows the tractor-trailer without any advertisement.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abbott, the two-term governor of Texas, is up for reelection in November 2022 and his team has already started campaigning, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/07\/12\/greg-abbott-special-session-campaign-donations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Texas Tribune<\/a>. A viral image on Facebook shows text reading \u201cAbbott Governor 2022\u201d on the back of a tractor-trailer being loaded with what appears to be dead bodies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPicture of the week from Texas,\u201d reads the photo\u2019s caption. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/03\/31\/fact-check-governor-greg-abbott-ban-travelers-texas-louisiana\/\">(RELATED: Did Texas Governor Greg Abbott Ban All Travelers Coming Into Texas From Louisiana?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Refrigerated trucks were occasionally used as temporary morgues during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. in 2020, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2020\/05\/15\/coronavirus-temporary-morgues-trucks-can-haul-food-again-fda-says\/5202538002\/\">USA Today<\/a>. In one instance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent 85 such vehicles to New York City to help store bodies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/nyc-hospitals-refrigerated-trucks-temporary-morgues\">Fox News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The picture, however, appears to be digitally altered. Through a reverse image search Check Your Fact found the original photo published by <a href=\"https:\/\/pictures.reuters.com\/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&amp;VBID=2C0BXZSFW4G2T4&amp;SMLS=1&amp;RW=1536&amp;RH=664#\/SearchResult&amp;VBID=2C0BXZSFW4G2T4&amp;SMLS=1&amp;RW=1536&amp;RH=664&amp;POPUPPN=27&amp;POPUPIID=2C0BF1M2FKPZ3\">Reuters Pictures<\/a>. There is no Abbott 2022 advertisement visible on the back of the truck in that image. The Abbott advertisement seen in the Facebook photo appears to have been digitally added onto the tractor-trailer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEl Paso County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office staff help move bodies that are in bags labeled \u2018Covid\u2019 from refrigerated trailers into the morgue office amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in El Paso, Texas, U.S. November 23, 2020,\u201d reads the image\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pictures.reuters.com\/CS.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&amp;VBID=2C0BXZSFW4G2T4&amp;SMLS=1&amp;RW=1536&amp;RH=664#\/SearchResult&amp;VBID=2C0BXZSFW4G2T4&amp;SMLS=1&amp;RW=1536&amp;RH=664&amp;POPUPPN=27&amp;POPUPIID=2C0BF1M2FKPZ3\">caption<\/a> on Reuters Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso experienced a <a href=\"https:\/\/usafacts.org\/visualizations\/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map\/state\/texas\/county\/el-paso-county\">surge<\/a> in COVID-19 deaths in November 2020 and was forced to call in at least 10 refrigerated trucks to be used as temporary morgues, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-usa-texas\/el-paso-texas-calls-in-ten-morgue-trucks-as-coronavirus-cases-surge-idUSKBN27P2VY\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 1,000 times purportedly shows a tractor-trailer with an advertisement for Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on the back being loaded with dead bodies.Verdict: False &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690721","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\/690721","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690721\/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=690721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}