{"id":4567,"date":"2022-10-10T06:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2022-10-12T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:22:33","slug":"manipulated-image-using-a-huge-croc-from-australia-shared-as-one-inside-a-flooded-house-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/manipulated-image-using-a-huge-croc-from-australia-shared-as-one-inside-a-flooded-house-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crocodile inside a flooded Florida home (PHOTO)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As the deadly hurricane Ian<\/a> continue to gather momentum across the many parts of the state of Florida, USA the latest reports estimates a death roll of over 100<\/a>, on top of the huge property damages and massive flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many social media users have shared posts related to hurricane Ian and its deadly aftermath. We came across an edited image among these posts, which claimed to be scenes of a monstrous crocodile inside a house in a house in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Media Posts<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

An image of a crocodile lurking in the waters of a flooded house, claiming to be recent scenes from Florida went viral as seen below with over a thousand shares so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Facebook<\/a>| Archived<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Users commented in awe to these unbelievable claims<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fact Check<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We did a reverse image search and was able to find that the image had been published and shared in various social media platforms and websites in different parts of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some posts had claimed the same image to be a recent scene from Bangalore, India. Such posts can be reached from here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Also we found a few articles which said that this incident happened in the Central American country, Costa Rica. As seen here<\/a>. Archived<\/a>. The image was linked to Africa as well. Such posts can be reached from here<\/a>.Archived<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Crocodile in Adelaide River\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Since the viral photo had been shared in many countries with different narratives, we cropped the part of the crocodile in the viral photo and did a separate reverse image search. The results indicated that the photo is the same as that of a crocodile, published in Daily Mail, 2014. The photo described a huge crocodile in Adelaide River, Australia as seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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dailymail.co.uk<\/a> | Archived Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above report attributes the photo to Adelaide River Cruise, a company that provides wildlife tours along the Adelaide River in the northern part of Australia where ‘Jumping Crocodiles’ is a key attraction. The same crocodile photo was also published on the website of the Adelaide River Cruise Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, International Media Network AP news, had also revealed the facts about this image and their report can be read from here<\/a>. Archived<\/a>. They had contacted Adelaide River Cruises company who had also confirmed that the photo taken in the Adelaide River represented a 20-foot-long giant crocodile named Dominator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video related to that crocodile can be watched from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We could not find the origins of the background image used in the viral image and an image comparison between the edited image and the real image can be seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, if you look closely at the viral photo, one can see the smoothing around the edges of the crocodile, which is a clear indication of the being photo manipulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conclusion<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

According to our investigation, we found that the viral image claiming to be a huge crocodile swimming inside a flooded house in Florida, is an altered image.The crocodile seen in the viral image was extracted from a photo of a huge crocodile from Adelaide River, Australia and has no connection to Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t