This Woman Says Her Photos Were Stolen To Spread A Fake Story About Her Uncle’s “Coronavirus Death”
A woman called “Sara Faith” made an explosive claim about the circumstances of her Uncle David’s death in a Facebook post shared tens of thousands of times in recent days.The profile pictures used actually belong to a woman called Sarah-Louise Cooper from Manchester in England, BuzzFeed News can reveal.The post, shared tens of thousands of times by the account, spread a growing conspiracy theory about medics manipulating death certificates to inflate coronavirus deaths.
BuzzFeed News messaged the account before it was removed but did not receive a response meaning it is impossible to know exactly who was behind it.Similar claims of death certificates being manipulated to inflate the death toll can be found all over Facebook.The claims tend to be attributed to a friend or relative, often anonymous but sometimes named, as in the case of “Uncle David”.
“When you don’t know who the source really is it makes it a lot harder to verify if it’s true or false,”“If there isn’t a named source to the information, think twice before sharing it.” “It makes me laugh that people are that pathetic that they’ve got to use somebody else’s pictures,” says Sarah-Louise Cooper.
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