5/17/2020 = 5+17+20+2= 62 George Floyd was found dead in the hospital? Articles and social media posts in multiple languages claim that the Obama Foundation posted a tweet on May 17, 2020 with a photo of George Floyd, eight days before his death in police custody. When the Obama Foundation website changed the image associated with their front page after George Floyd's death it changed on Twitter in all older tweets that linked to it.This is what the post looked like on Twitter at the time of writing:As you can see the link in the tweet goes to the website of The Obama Foundation, obama.org, which, at the time of writing, has following line in the page source code:This line tells twitter to use following image if you send a tweet containing the URL obama.org: According to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive : So older tweets may have the card change when the website updates the card,” a Twitter spokesman told AFP in an email.The Obama Foundation told AFP by email: “There is no truth to this internet rumor. The preview image for Obama.org updates dynamically on social media sites, based on the information set. “That’s a caption typo that I caught after filing (I was in the middle of the protest and honestly have no idea how I made an error like that). See who is sharing it (it might even be your friends...) and leave the link in the comments. https://www.obama.org/wp-content/uploads/053020_GeorgeFloyd_Protests_Chicago_IL_CD_1588-scaled.jpghttps://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/06/fact-check-the-obama-foundation-on-twitter.htmlMaarten Schenk is our resident expert on fake news and hoax websites. Obama Message May 18 same pictur… Why is George Floyds Picture used on May 17 2020 for the Obama Foundation, #GraduateTogether ? Posted by Admin Dee on June 7, 2020 at 4:18am WOW- The Obama Foundation tweets a picture that looks like George Floyd on May 17, 2020! inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet. Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or For many links Twitter automatically shows a thumbnail image when you post them on the service. The foundation changed its Twitter card image after Floyd’s death, and that made the image in tweets linking to its website from before his death show Floyd’s likeness. Websites can control which image gets used by Twitter for that purpose by adding a special line to their source code. When the Obama Foundation website changed the image associated with their front page after George Floyd's death it changed on Twitter in all older tweets that linked to it. Note: if reading this fact check makes you want to Nous voudrions effectuer une description ici mais le site que vous consultez ne nous en laisse pas la possibilité. The misunderstanding appeared in the reactions to a tweet published by The Obama Foundation on May 17, 2020 (archived here) which read: Weeks of demonstrations against police brutality toward black Americans have followed.The misleading article concluded that “the whole thing was planned in advance.” This is false; AFP on June 5 Neither the May 16 nor May 17 tweet originally featured the image of Floyd, because the photo was not taken until May 30.“Websites can choose a preview image (Twitter card), that shows up when the site is linked to in tweets. Did the Twitter account of the Obama Foundation post a picture showing a George Floyd protest sign on May 17, 2020, days before he actually died on May 25, 2020? He can often be found at conferences and events about fake news, disinformation and fact checking when he is not in his office in Belgium monitoring and tracking the latest fake article to go viral.Fact Check: NO Evidence Looters Burned Redlands Amazon Facility To Ground In Floyd ProtestsFact Check: Starbucks, KFC Coupons Offering Free Food For 'Black Lives Matter' Are Fake He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread made-up things on the internet. No, that's not true: the tweet contained a link to the website of the Obama Foundation. The Obama Foundation did not tweet an image of Floyd on May 17. The photo with the George Floyd protest sign that previewed for Obama.org was taken on May 30, 2020 and first used on our site on May 31, 2020.” The foundation also said: “Twitter’s web crawlers re-index the preview information on pages, roughly every week and it subsequently dynamically updated the preview images for older posts with the Obama.org URL.”The May 17 tweet from the Obama Foundation contains a link to the organization’s A Google reverse image search of the Floyd picture with results limited to the first week of June 2020 leads to an A new search in Sipa USA’s online archive for the name of the photographer, “Christopher Dilts,” with results limited to May 30, yields the To clarify whether the photo was taken in March or May, AFP reached out to Dilts, who explained that the March date in the caption is incorrect due to an error on his part while sending in the demonstration photos.


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