When Hurricane Sandy drew near the East Coast, Twitter and Instagram came alive with pictures of the storm. One showed ominous clouds gathering over Midtown Manhattan. In another, soldiers guarded Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under a haze of rain. A third showed a massive wave crashing around the Statue of Liberty. They were stunning images, capturing the scale of the disaster as well as its human impact. There was just one problem: none of them were actually pictures of Sandy.
"I was absolutely sure that everybody knew that was a fake. It was on the poster of the film, for goodness’ sake."
"I was absolutely sure that everybody knew that was a fake," says Tom Phillips, an MSN editor and author of the "Is...
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