{"id":998952,"date":"2021-11-11T13:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=998952"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:44:06","slug":"fact-check-no-this-image-does-not-show-a-kansas-city-missouri-tourism-ad-with-a-typo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-image-does-not-show-a-kansas-city-missouri-tourism-ad-with-a-typo\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Image Does Not Show A Kansas City, Missouri, Tourism Ad With A Typo"},"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\">34<\/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-does-not-show-a-kansas-city-missouri-tourism-ad-with-a-typo%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=998952&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\/sallyzhare\/posts\/10158869434723208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 180 times allegedly shows a Visit KC sign about annual visitors to Kansas City, Missouri, that contains a significant typo.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photos and videos show the real sign using the word \u201cannually.\u201d Visit KC confirmed the image has been doctored.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sign visible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sallyzhare\/posts\/10158869434723208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the Facebook post<\/a>&nbsp;includes the logos of Visit KC and the U.S. Travel Association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180502030709\/https:\/\/www.ustravel.org\/events\/national-travel-and-tourism-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2018 National Travel and Tourism Week<\/a>, which was held May 6 to 12 that year. Visit KC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitkc.com\/about-visit-kc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">describes itself<\/a> on its website as a \u201ceconomic development organization dedicated to tourism\u201d and an organization&nbsp;\u201ccontracted by the City of Kansas City, Missouri.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the image, the sign appears to state Kansas City \u201cwelcomes 25 million visitors anally\u201d instead of \u201cannually.\u201d The Facebook post\u2019s caption remarks, \u201cYou can\u2019t make this stuff up.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/07\/10\/fact-check-kansas-city-chiefs-clark-hunt-fire-players-staff-national-anthem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Kansas City Chiefs Owner Clark Hunt Say He Would \u2018Immediately Fire\u2019 Players And Staff Who Don\u2019t Stand For The National Anthem?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While instances of the image have been circulating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/238135553037524\/posts\/810721242445616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since at least May 7, 2018<\/a>, the photo is digitally altered. Visit KC shared the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VisitKC\/status\/994003462093459456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original photo<\/a> and another picture showing the same sign from a different angle on Twitter on May 8 of that year, both of which showed the sign containing the word \u201cannually.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.869109947644\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here\u2019s the original image, which has also been circulating on social media, as well as a photo of the sign from another angle. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bf0pBk3uHd\">pic.twitter.com\/bf0pBk3uHd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Visit KC (@VisitKC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VisitKC\/status\/994003462093459456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit KC had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VisitKC\/status\/993596678774149131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously tweeted<\/a> May 7, 2018, that the image showing the sign saying \u201canally\u201d was \u201cfake\u201d and that the \u201cadvertisement it features has been doctored to show a misspelling where there is none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The typo-free sign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fox4kc\/videos\/10155874991868645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can also be seen<\/a> in footage live-streamed on Facebook by Fox 4 Kansas City after the doctored image initially went viral in 2018.&nbsp;The video showed it was displayed at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@39.1085048,-94.5820716,3a,71.8y,153.73h,91.02t\/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snDgINt8DeUWhl0F9jqXJzg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">streetcar stop<\/a> in downtown Kansas City. The edited photo and Visit KC\u2019s response to it received <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/business\/travel\/kansas-city-tourism-poster-with-very-unfortunate-mistake-becomes-butt-of-jokes-on-twitter\/news-story\/24cccd3bb35b38156378d0312496a0a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some media attention<\/a> as far away as Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 180 times allegedly shows a Visit KC sign about annual visitors to Kansas City, Missouri, that contains a significant typo.Verdict: False Photos and videos &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"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-998952","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\/998952","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=998952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998952\/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=998952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}