This image has been manipulated from a press photograph of Scott Morrison
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- Published on May 24, 2021 at 11:45
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- By AFP Australia
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The image was published in a Facebook post on May 20, 2021, and has since been shared more than 200 times.
The post purports to show a photo of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison with a wet patch on his pants, and mocks him for the apparent blunder.
Other instances of the image appear in this Facebook post, as well as on Twitter here and here.
However, the image has been manipulated.
A Google reverse image search led to this article by The Australian newspaper, which features an unedited version of the image.
A further search on Morrison’s Facebook page led to this post on May 16, 2021, which also features the unedited photograph, which was taken during a visit to an engineering firm in Queensland.
Below is a comparison between the image in the misleading post (L) and the image on Morrison’s Facebook page (R):
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