{"id":714459,"date":"2021-09-03T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=714459"},"modified":"2021-09-03T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:20:26","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-sharks-swimming-in-a-pennsylvania-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-sharks-swimming-in-a-pennsylvania-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Sharks Swimming In A Pennsylvania Mall?"},"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\">24<\/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-sharks-swimming-in-a-pennsylvania-mall%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=714459&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\/09\/GettyImages-73900119-scaled-e1630643717985.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=4437109239645456&amp;set=a.529702177052868\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 600 times purportedly shows sharks swimming at the Galleria Mall in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image has been digitally manipulated to include the sharks. The original photo was taken in Canada in 2012, not Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Parts of Pennsylvania saw heavy rain, flooding and other severe weather as a result of remnants of Hurricane Ida traveling up the mid-Atlantic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/02\/us\/philadelphia-flooding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> reported. One of the areas of Pennsylvania that got hit with significant flooding was York, according to local NBC News-affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/flooding-shuts-down-east-market-street-york-pennsylvania-ida\/37457443#\">WGAL News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Sept. 1 Facebook image shows what appears to be two sharks in flood water at the bottom of two escalators. \u201cGalleria Mall York Pennsylvania,\u201d reads text accompanying the image.<\/p>\n<p>The image, however, has been digitally manipulated to add in the sharks. Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found the original image included in a photo slideshow included in <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/union-station-flood-strands-thousands-of-toronto-commuters-1.834513\">June 2012 article<\/a> by CTVNews about floods in Toronto. The flooding was due to heavy rainfall combined with a backed-up storm sewer, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA mixture of rain and sewer water has flooded the concourse of the Royal Bank Plaza in Toronto,\u201d the original photo\u2019s caption reads.<\/p>\n<p>The doctored photo has been circulating online since 2012, and was included in a list of funny pictures from the Toronto floods published by BlogTo bearing the headline: \u201cA roundup of Union Station flood funnies.\u201d Jamie King later sent a tweet explaining he created the image, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/torontolife.com\/city\/union-station-sharks-kuwait\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.2822085889571\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christerickson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@christerickson<\/a> The shark photo is a hoax. I made it as a joke, in response to the flooding at Union Station in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie King (@JamieaKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamieaKing\/status\/213740982536122368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe shark photo is a hoax,\u201d King tweeted. \u201cI made it as a joke, in response to the flooding at Union Station in Toronto.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact that he did create the image, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not real, it\u2019s a joke I put together quickly in photoshop that continues to pop up all around the globe when there is a large storm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 600 times purportedly shows sharks swimming at the Galleria Mall in Pennsylvania.Verdict: False The image has been digitally manipulated to include the sharks. 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