Hoaxers are using the Australia wildfires to spread misinformation — sometimes for profit
In a striking video shared more than a million times on Twitter, a woman in a flowing white dress is wrapped in a long embrace with a kangaroo. “Kangaroo can’t stop hugging the volunteer who saved her life,” wrote the unidentified user who shared it.
To many, the implication was clear: The woman, who one observer noted was “LITERALLY dressed like an angel too,” had rescued the grateful creature from the fires ravaging Australia.
Except that’s not at all what the video showed. As the woman featured in the video, InStyle Editor in Chief Laura Brown, has repeatedly tried to clarify, it was taken at an animal sanctuary last month. There were no fires there. And Brown didn’t save the kangaroo’s life.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/09/hoaxers-are-using-australia-wildfires-spread-misinformation-sometimes-profit/

To many, the implication was clear: The woman, who one observer noted was “LITERALLY dressed like an angel too,” had rescued the grateful creature from the fires ravaging Australia.
Except that’s not at all what the video showed. As the woman featured in the video, InStyle Editor in Chief Laura Brown, has repeatedly tried to clarify, it was taken at an animal sanctuary last month. There were no fires there. And Brown didn’t save the kangaroo’s life.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/09/hoaxers-are-using-australia-wildfires-spread-misinformation-sometimes-profit/
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