Ethiopia Air Crash: How Stupid Kenyans circulated fake photos on social media

In January this year, in the aftermath of the terror attack at 14 Riverside Drive, Kenyans descended on New York Times, after the newspaper published pictures of death people.

Their argument was that, it was unethical to publish such pictures. In fact for the first time in history, Twitter had to temporarily block the New York Times Photo account after an uproar from KoT.

But less than two months since that unfortunate incident, Kenyans were online doing the same thing (In fact worse) that they had accused the New York Times of doing.

Several pictures about the ill fated Ethiopian Air plane that crashed on Sunday killing 157 people went viral on social media. Unfortunately, these were fake photos that idle Kenyans were circulating just to remain relevant.

The following are some of the fake photos that went viral on Sunday:

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This is an Ethiopian Cargo plane that crashed in Ghana in 2015. It has nothing to do with Sunday’s crash. This one had 3 crew members on board.
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This Algerian Military plane crashed in Algiers on April 11th 2018 killing all 257 passengers on board in a crash that brought the world to a stand still. Unfortunately Kenyans were circulating the images as that of the Ethiopian Air Crash.
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This Indonesian Hercules military plane crashed on June 30, 2015. Some people dug it from the internet and used it to get likes on Facebook.

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This American plane belonging to Asiana Airline crashed  while landing at San Francisco airport on July 6, 2013. Fortunately only 3 people lost their lives with more than 200 injured.

The bottomline is that we should stop posting crap just to look relevant. You never know how such photos affect families of victims.

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