Facebook has a photo published by its publishers that it shows a picture of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the moon, carried by Amr Mohamed, the first Egyptian youth to climb into space, the accompanying commentary claims.

But the fact is that the picture is fabricated. The young man never went up to the moon, but won the YouTube Space Lab in 2012, and the prize was for NASA scientists to experiment with space.

"The image of the Sisi on the moon is placed by the first Egyptian young man to ascend into space and raise the image of the Sisi and the flag of Egypt on the moon," said an astronaut on the moon with a picture of the Sisi.

"The Egyptian young man, Amr Mohamed El Sayed, is the first Egyptian and Arab young man to ascend into space and raise the flag of his country and a picture of the great leader of Sisi, who saved his country, in recognition of his dear country and its leader."

The publication received more than one thousand and seventy entries on this page alone, in addition to hundreds of posts on other pages. Although most users question the authenticity of the image, saying it is modified - and many are treated with irony - it continues to spread as real.

A fabricated image
According to a report by Agence France-Presse, the search through the site "TinEye" the same picture with different amendments showing the flags of other countries in the background.

He also guided the search through Google to a publication on the NASA site in 2002, showing the astronaut holding nothing in his hands, and behind him the American flag was clear.

The search was directed through key words via Facebook to the page of Egyptian businessman Ashraf Al Saad, dating back to 2014.

"Ashraf al-Saad raises the image of President al-Sisi on the moon," said the sarcastic publication, "Ashraf al-Sa'ad, raising the image of the president of the Sisi on the moon, and April 6, telling you that you are the most beloved, because I paid the blood of my heart to the extent that it reached the moon."

Al-Sa'ad installed his image on the front of the helmet and replaced the flag of the United States with the flag of Egypt, and placed the image of the Sisi in the hands of the astronaut.

The pages re-use this image in 2019 as showing the Egyptian young man Amr Saad on the moon.

The picture follows the Apollo 17 flight to the moon in 1972, featuring astronaut Eugene Cernan, and the photograph of his colleague Harrison Schmidt showing his reflection on the helmet. The astronauts spent 75 hours on the moon.

This was the last manned flight to the moon, and the last flight to the moon at all was the flight of the unmanned Soviet vehicle Luna-24 in 1976.