Time Magazine: Fake Donald Trump Cover Appears After Attack
- July 18, 2024
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A viral image that aims to show TIME Magazine Cover titled “Ear Man” with a photograph of the former US President, Donald Trumpthis is not true. The image
A viral image that aims to show TIME Magazine Cover titled “Ear Man” with a photograph of the former US President, Donald Trumpthis is not true.
The image shows Trump with a bandage on his right ear, which began to circulate after an attack he suffered during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.
Information site BOOM denied authenticity fake cover. Fact-checkers noted that the supposed cover lacks a publication date and the thin white border that typically separates the red border from the photograph on authentic TIME covers.
They also noticed that the logo was stretched vertically and the word TIME It was too drawn out.
In 2017, TIME magazine published an article designed to help its readers distinguish a fake cover from a real one.
According to TIME, counterfeit covers often feature a stretched logo, the word TIME placed too far apart, or the logo in a different font. real cover from TIME will always have a thin white border between the red frame and the photo.
On July 14, 2024, TIME magazine posted the cover of the August 5, 2024 issue on its official X account, featuring a photo Trump’s Ear Injury and the headline “Attack on Trump.”
On July 18, TIME published another cover featuring a devastating photo taken at the end of a rally in Pennsylvania where Trump was shot in the ear. The attacker, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed by the U.S. Secret Service.
Trump supporters on social media accused the magazine of changing the cover to avoid political gain for the Republican candidate.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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