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Amazon Wildfire Pictures: What’s Fact and What Isn’t?

Anas Nassief Anas Nassief
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29th May 2020
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Amazon Wildfire Pictures: What’s Fact and What Isn’t?
Images do not show fires that took place in the Amazon in 2019 (Getty Images)

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During the outbreak of fires in the Amazon rainforest, several websites and social media pages circulated photos claiming to show the fires. Celebrities and politicians on social media called for action to put out the fires and save the rainforest, using some of these photos to indicate a disaster that threatened Brazil's population.

 

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