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                                    <p>As Texans face torrential rains and flooding from Hurricane Harvey, a deluge of misinformation is spreading online. False claims the New York Times has spotted so far include:</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p>• Individuals hoping to pass on helpful information may be unintentionally spreading a scam that targets hurricane victims.</p>

                                                                
                                                                                                                                            
                    
                    
                                                        <p>• Critics of President Donald Trump are misinterpreting the actions of former President Barack Obama.</p>

                                                                
                    
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                                                        <p>• Those awed by the apocalyptic scenes of sharks swimming up freeways are breathing new life into a fake image that makes the rounds of social media during major hurricanes.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p><span class="Text_Bold">A number listed in social media posts does not direct disaster victims to the National Guard.</span></p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                                    
    

                


    

    
                                                                                <p>Social media hoaxes often capitalize on the outpouring of support for victims of crises, and trick those seeking to help into unwittingly sharing misinformation.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                                            
                                                
                                                                    
                                                        <p>This weekend, scores of Facebook users shared a phone number that supposedly connected people impacted by Harvey to the National Guard. But the number actually belongs to Foremost Insurance Group. The National Guard alerted victims of the online scam via Twitter on Monday afternoon. The insurance company said that the original post was created by an “unidentified person not associated with our company.”</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p>“Foremost truly cares about our customers and all Texas residents affected by this disaster and regrets any frustration experienced by those who saw the misinformation,” it said in a statement.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p><span class="Text_Bold">Former President Barack Obama is not currently in Texas.</span></p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                                            
                                                
                                                                    
                                                        <p>Viral fakery can feed on deeply held beliefs, especially of a political nature.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p>The hyperpartisan website DailyDems, for example, posted on Sunday about Obama thanking emergency medical workers for their efforts in Houston. The DailyDems article was liked over 33,000 times on Facebook and seen in 4 million newsfeeds, according to data from the social analytics company CrowdTangle.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p>The factual content within the original post is accurate.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                                            
                                                
                                                                    
                                                        <p>But in an attempt to use the actions of Obama to portray Trump in a negative light, the post used a bit of visual and headline trickery that confused social users. It paired an old image of Obama with a headline comparing him to Trump: “Fmr. President Obama Tweets about Houston Flooding, Now THIS Is How A President Should Act.”</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p>The photo of Obama led many social media users to believe the former president was serving food in Texas. A viral Twitter post, which garnered at least 7,000 retweets, was deleted after CNN contacted the user, but the photo survived and continues to spread.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p>The photo dates to November 2015, when Obama and his family served Thanksgiving dinner to the homeless at a shelter in Washington D.C. He is not currently in Texas, according to his spokesman Eric Schultz. Trump spent the weekend at Camp David and will travel to Texas on Tuesday.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                                            
                                                
                                                                    
                                                        <p><span class="Text_Bold">A shark is not swimming through the streets of Houston.</span></p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p>A viral tweet shared almost 10,000 times since early morning Tuesday is said to show a shark on the freeway in Houston after Hurricane Harvey.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                                        <p>Don’t believe it. This fake image is an old hoax that circulates routinely after major hurricanes.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                                            
                                                
                                                                    
                                                        <p>The photoshopped shark, pranksters falsely claimed, swam in the streets of Houston two years earlier. A similar prank circulated after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and after Hurricane Irene in 2011. But, as Snopes has reported, the image is lifted from this photograph of a kayaker being followed by a shark off the coast of South Africa, appeared in Africa Geographic magazine in 2005.</p>

                                                                
                    
                    
                    
                                    
                
                
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