{"id":734454,"date":"2021-09-09T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734454"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:50:26","slug":"fact-check-did-cvs-pharmacy-create-this-its-just-the-flu-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-cvs-pharmacy-create-this-its-just-the-flu-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did CVS Pharmacy Create This \u2018It\u2019s Just The Flu\u2019 Poster?"},"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-did-cvs-pharmacy-create-this-its-just-the-flu-poster%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=734454&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\/CVS-scaled-e1631138824849.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10218372190999411&amp;set=a.3964762600778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows a CVS Pharmacy poster advertising COVID-19 vaccines that reads, \u201cGet a FREE \u2018it\u2019s just the flu\u2019 shot today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The poster is actually artwork from a graphic artist. It was neither created nor posted by CVS, according to a spokesperson for the company.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10218372190999411&amp;set=a.3964762600778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> shows a screen grab of a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gliadkovskaya\/status\/1424109561905127425\">tweet<\/a> from Twitter user @gliadkovskaya that includes a picture of a supposed CVS Pharmacy poster in which there is a cartoon of a man wearing a sleeveless shirt and a red-and-white hat with an upside-down American flag. The tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gliadkovskaya\/status\/1424109561905127425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reads<\/a>, \u201c@cvspharmacy out here ramping up its culturally-targeted interventions for vaccine hesitancy lmao.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The image, however, does not show a genuine CVS Pharmacy poster. A reverse image search revealed a few pictures of the same poster can be found on the website of graphic artist <a href=\"https:\/\/winstontseng.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winston Tseng<\/a> under the collection \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/winstontseng.com\/post\/661616856812175360\/vaccine-hesitancy-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vaccine Hesitancy (2021)<\/a>.\u201d Tseng has also created other posters that seemingly allude to various issues in politics and the news and that incorporate company logos such as <a href=\"https:\/\/winstontseng.com\/post\/654819155000868866\/money-fixes-everything-2021-more-info-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/winstontseng.com\/post\/661617271204134912\/school-mask-mandate-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Target<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/winstontseng.com\/post\/644832024880971776\/wealth-inequality-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bank of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/winstontseng.com\/tagged\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cAbout\u201d page<\/a> on Tseng\u2019s website makes clear that all of his creations are works of art. Erin Britt, a spokesperson for CVS, confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact, \u201cThis is not a real CVS poster and no such signage is in place at our stores.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/02\/08\/fact-check-walmart-sold-chinese-investors\/\">(RELATED: Was Walmart Sold To A Group Of Chinese Investors?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twitter user @gliadkovskaya, whose tweet appears in the Facebook post, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gliadkovskaya\/status\/1424119172745863174\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow-up tweet<\/a> that she had asked two CVS employees about the poster, who \u201cneither seemed aware or certain\u201d and referred her to CVS\u2019 corporate office. In <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gliadkovskaya\/status\/1424542042596671488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another tweet<\/a>, she added that, per CVS, the poster does not belong to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a CVS Pharmacy poster advertising COVID-19 vaccines that reads, \u201cGet a FREE \u2018it\u2019s just the flu\u2019 shot today.\u201dVerdict: False The poster is actually &#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-734454","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\/734454","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=734454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734454\/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=734454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}