These Images Do Not Show Dead Fish on Tonga’s Shores
The Claim
The images show dead fish that washed up on Tonga’s shores.
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Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar has investigated the claim and found it to be misleading. We found that the images belong to other contexts using Google Image Reverse Search. The first image depicts thousands of fish that washed up on a beach in Buddina, Queensland, and was attached to an article in The Courier-Mail in 2015.
Description: The image shows fish that washed up on the beach at Buddinan, Queensland, in 2015.
The second picture is also old. It was attached to an article on El País in 2015. According to the newspaper, the image depicts dead fish that washed up on the coast of Uruguay due to a lack of oxygen after being trapped in shallow waters, as Uruguay's National Directorate of Aquatic Resources said.
Description: The image is old.
The last image of crabs is circulating recently on social media, and users said it was taken in Fiji's Gau Island. According to The Fiji Times, the crabs were spotted in Yadua village.
Since the incident in Tonga has recently been the subject of several fake news and misleading posts, our team has worked on numerous misleading stories about this disaster.
