Rihanna shares fake photo of Australia bushfires after it goes viral

Amidst massive destruction to life and properties due to escalating bushfire crisis in Australia, a lot of misinformation is reportedly being spre on internet. t only regular among people but even a few celebrities have fell victim to wrong maps and graphics believing m to be true. Recently, American singer Rihanna shared a misinterpreted im of burning fires in Australia.

Shared fake im on Instagram

On January 6, Work hitmaker took to Instagram to share an im of a map, which claimed to show Australian bushfires but eventually it turned out to be fake. A reverse search revealed that im was actually artist Anthony Hearsey's visualisation of data collected over a month on fires in Australia. In text written along with picture, he explained that it was a compilation and t all areas were burning.

He furr ded that it was a 3D visualisation of hotspots in Australia and t a photo.  He also urged people to think of it as a graph and te that it was created as an art piece. Soon after it went viral, Instagram flagged it as false information. Hearsey also justified marking saying that a number of people have misled ors calling it a NASA photo which is probably why Instagram has marked it as “False Information”

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ding to im shared by Rihanna, re are various or maps doing rounds on social media which have led to a lot of confusion amongst netizens. 

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