Recently, a picture emerged on social media, showing a fire burning in front of the Arc de Triomphe amidst the Paris protests. Then someone posted another image, ‘debunking’ the photo as fake news, saying it was shot at a certain angle to make it appear bigger than it really was. But turns out it wasn’t that simple.
Read more Someone recently posted the ‘real’ pictures of the Paris protest fire
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But the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) did their own take on this ‘debunking’
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They explained how the pictures weren’t taken on the same day and highlighted the importance of knowing your sources
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People on the internet shared their thoughts
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