Old photos falsely shared as showing 'aftermath of Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae' in the Philippines

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Old photos falsely shared as showing 'aftermath of Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae' in the Philippines
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🇵🇭 Old photos falsely shared as showing 'aftermath of Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae' in the Philippines

Comments on the posts suggest some users believed the photos showed how farmers had been affected by Nalgae.But the claim is false; reverse image searches found the photos have circulated in reports and posts published before Nalgae hit the Philippines."A farmer laments the loss caused by unseasonal rainfall, in Dhanusha of Province 2, in October 2021. Photo: Shrawan Dev," reads the photo's caption.

"Many farmers and their families are in deep grief as hundreds of thousands of hectares of ready-to-harvest paddy are submerged in water," it adds.

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