No, this image actually shows a doctored Boston Globe front page
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- Published on August 18, 2020 at 09:30
- 2 min read
- By AFP Sri Lanka
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The image was published here on Facebook on August 6, 2020. It has been shared more than 1,100 times.
The misleading post features a purported front page of The Boston Globe dated August 16, 2018.
The headline reads: “Top Foolish Voters, By Country”, and lists Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, in order.
The Sinhala text overlay translates to English as: “We are happy to announce that we have been selected as the world’s most foolish voters”.
The image was also shared here, here, here, here and here on Facebook, and here on Twitter, alongside similar claims.
However, the claim is false; this image actually shows a doctored front page.
A reverse image search on Google found the original photo published here on the website of international photo agency Getty Images, dated August 16, 2018.
Below is a screenshot of the photo on Getty's website.
The photo caption reads: “The front page of the Thursday, August 16, 2018 edition of the Boston Globe newspaper reads 'Journalists are Not the Enemy' as it sits for sale at Out of Town News on August 16, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hundreds of U.S. newspapers joined together and published editorials decrying President Donald Trump's description of the media as the 'enemy of the people.'"
Below is a screenshot comparison between the front page pictured in the misleading post (L) and the Getty Images photo (R) :
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