11 viral pics that aren’t Sandy

11 viral pics that aren’t Sandy

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Amidst the social media storm accompanying Hurricane Sandy, there are plenty of pics making the rounds that don’t stand the sniff test.

Reyhan Harmanci and Allison McCann have rounded up these eleven, a few of which you’ve probably already seen, and told the real story behind them.

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A photoshop job of the Statue of Liberty and a supercell thunderstorm from 2004 taken by photographer Mike Hollingshead.

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This Manhattan skyline fake has been floating around Twitter and Instagram today, but was originally on a Wall Street Journal post from 2011.

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Crazy satellite picture…of Hurricane Ike.

Full story at Buzzfeed.

Wading through the social media flood.


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