An image of an exercise in a Quebec hospital hijacked as a false report on BFMTV, images from a database accused of showing a "Covid actress" ...
These are the latest examples of staging accusations, which have multiplied since the start of the pandemic.
This "Covid actress" is actually a man who posed for photos aimed at illustrating medical situations.
He also posed for pictures showing him taking a walk or sipping a drink.
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Since 2020, this suspicion has circulated on the Internet and is fueled by images or videos taken out of context.
There was first a Swiss minister accused, wrongly, of posing with mannequins in a hospital in the midst of a pandemic.
Then there were images of an exercise in Germany intended to train caregivers, diverted to suggest that it was an actress taking the place of a patient.
The suspicion now hangs over photographs showing a man - taken for a woman - being tested and then being hospitalized.
“Congratulations to this Covid actress who managed to get tested, be hospitalized and become a doctor the same week,” reads a post accompanying the images.
Another image went viral at the same time, suggesting that a team of medical staff attempted to resuscitate a model.
It is accompanied by the banner and the logo of the BFMTV channel.
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If this man, accused of being a “Covid actress”, appears photographed in various situations, it is quite simply because these photos come from the Shutterstock site, an image bank.
These images are signed by PPK-studio, which has uploaded more than 2,000 images to this site.
The photo where the man poses for a test is visible here.
The one where two extras in nursing outfits put him an oxygen mask is here.
The second photo where we see him in bed is here and the one where he watches a radio is here.
Finally, the one where he looks in mourning is here.
This same extra appears all smiles in other photos that do not show him in a medical context: we see him in a photo where he is walking, a bicycle in his hand, with another extra.
He is also seen simply sipping a drink or chatting with the same extra.
Shutterstock, like its competitors, provides or sells photos featuring extras in various situations.
They can be linked to current events or represent scenes from everyday or professional life.
These stagings can even go as far as the absurd or disturbing.
These images are then bought or used by sites or blogs, which reuse them to illustrate articles.
The photo of this man with the bike was used by a health site in Australia for example.
As for the image showing a team working around a mannequin, it is a montage, as several Internet users have noted: the BFMTV logo has been added to a video showing a simulation in intensive care .
Posted on YouTube on April 23, 2020 by the University Institute of Cardiology and Pneumology of Quebec, it shows an exercise simulating the management of a patient with Covid-19.
The images had also been broadcast a few days earlier in a Radio Canada report, as AFP noted.
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