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Question about a viral photo of a 'ghost' in a museum
I saw a picture going around last month of a blurry figure in the Egyptian wing of the British Museum. I spent an hour looking for the original source before I realized the metadata showed it was taken in 2021, not last week. The date mismatch was the first clue it was a recycled hoax. I started checking the EXIF data on any suspicious image after that. It's a simple step that catches a lot of old stories pretending to be new. Has anyone else found a good way to quickly verify when a photo was actually taken?
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