August 22, 2019. Emmanuel Macron, President of France, protests against burning in the Amazon through social networks. Several famous personalities also manifest themselves: Gisele Bündchen, Camila Cabello, Leonardo DiCaprio and other celebrities are worried. However, there is a problem.
Despite portraying a fire in the Amazon, the photo was not taken in 2019, as the posts suggest. The record was already found in an article in the Setember 2012 Nature magazine and is on sale in the Alamy company’s image bank.
On the same day, football player Cristiano Ronaldo posts an image in prayer for the burning of the Amazon. The photo is liked by over 2 million people. The event is old and the photo was not taken in the Amazon, it shows a fire at the Taim Ecological Station, in Rio Grande do Sul, in March 2013.
All these events serve to show us that many personalities that guide the public debate have no idea what they are divulging. The information you see on a daily basis in the media is not always what it seems. The smoke screen, this time, does not come from the burnings, but from the disinformation present in the mainstream media.