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</header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"><p><img class="size-full wp-image-519 aligncenter" src="https://i1.wp.com/www.sharkophile.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Houston-Texas-Flood-Shark-Photo-Fake-News.jpg?resize=600%2C316" alt="" width="600" height="316" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/www.sharkophile.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Houston-Texas-Flood-Shark-Photo-Fake-News.jpg?w=600 600w, https://i1.wp.com/www.sharkophile.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Houston-Texas-Flood-Shark-Photo-Fake-News.jpg?resize=300%2C158 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" data-recalc-dims="1" /></p>
<p>Fox News anchor Jesse Watters propagated some &#8220;fake news&#8221; on Tuesday. Reporting that sharks had taken over the flooded streets of Texas.</p>
<p>“There’s some really weird biblical things that are going on down there in Houston,&#8221; Watters told viewers.</p>
<p>The viral photo was posted to Twitter in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. The Photoshopped image of a juvenile great white shark swimming down a Houston street was enough to fool the reporter, who failed to do proper research before comparing the situation to a real-life Sharknado.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Believe it or not, this is a shark on the freeway in Houston, Texas. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneHarvy?src=hash">#HurricaneHarvy</a> <a href="https://t.co/ANkEiEQ3Y6">pic.twitter.com/ANkEiEQ3Y6</a></p>
<p>— Jason Michael (@Jeggit) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jeggit/status/902048241646280704">August 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The post had garnered over 100,000 likes and had been retweeted over 60,000 times. A basic Google search, however, would have kept the inaccurate reporting from being disemminated.</p>
<p>Similar images appeared in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene in 2011, Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and Hurricane Joequin in 2015.</p>
<p>The original image was taken by Thomas Peschak and published in a 2005 issue of Africa Geographic. The nature photographer keeps a collection of all the instances of his image being manipulated</p>
<p>&#8220;I always look forward to receiving emails from friends and family who have spotted the same white shark in a different context,&#8221; Peschak said. &#8220;While I will probably never become a legend in my own right, at least my white shark is well on her way.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Origin of shark in interstate floodwaters: <a href="https://t.co/tKD1QECAig">https://t.co/tKD1QECAig</a></p>
<p>The fake photo first appeared in 2011 after <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Irene?src=hash">#Irene</a> struck Puerto Rico. <a href="https://t.co/qbCXRDZ39C">pic.twitter.com/qbCXRDZ39C</a></p>
<p>— Weather Hustle (@WeatherHustle) <a href="https://twitter.com/WeatherHustle/status/902170177592315906">August 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Source: <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/aug/28/blog-posting/there-are-no-sharks-swimming-streets-houston-or-an/">@politifact</a></p>
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