This photo of a pigeon which is sitting on a hospital bed, spread around the world in social media.
A nurse is supposed to have made the photo of the bird, who had visited the patient allegedly weeks every other day. His family was in this period not to look.
Further, it is said that the man had fed the pigeon before a day in a Park in the vicinity of the hospital.
But what’s with the photo and the story itself?
In the case of the seemingly current history of the pigeon who visits a sick person, it is a Fake.
The photo is already created in 2013. Is it in Athens in Greece.
Photographer Ioannis proto notarios post the image on the photo platform Flickr. To do this, he writes:
“In loving memory of my father, until five days ago, the bed next to this place.” – Ioannis Proto Notarios, Flickr
Compared to the German press Agency (dpa), he confirms that he, and not a nurse I shot the photo.
The photographer points to a crucial contradiction in the viral history:
“Not a nurse would have a dove every day come in, and over hours to a patient, let sit for a photo in social media in order to indicate (…) city of birds, especially pigeons, spread a number of diseases.“– Ioannis proto notarios compared. “Lead Stories”
The case of the pigeons-photos shows that a Fake is always accompanied with image manipulation. Sometimes, a made-up story ranges in combination with a real photo in order to lead people astray.
As we examine in the editorial Videos to Manipulation? Here, a look at the Details is important. The individual frames of a video often reveal whether a Video has been edited. We look at picture carefully and zoom in individual cut-outs. Evidence for a Fake the lack of motion blur, unnatural Shadow, or cutting, for example: error. The star seriousness before speed is generally:. We check the facts and Material more thoroughly before we release it. We work with the editors ‘ comprehensive “Team verification” together with RTL, NTV, RTL2, Radio NRW.
