Social media enables anyone's claims to go out to millions, even billions of people in a short time, but it takes longer to find the truth. Here's an example of a photo that some people sent around claiming this massive crowd had assembled to support democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. It is an impressive amount of people and would inspire some to join the crowd and support him, too, but it's not reality.
Origin:In mid-April 2016, the above-reproduced image purportedly depicting a Bernie Sanders rally in New York City began circulating on social media, captioned as follows:
"And I watched with tears in my eyes ...As the world BERNED."Social media users likely found the image plausible as it appeared to reflect reporting on the 13 April 2016 Bernie Sanders rally in Washington Square Park, attendance for which was estimated at around 27,000 people.
Photographs from the Sanders event were easy to find. However, this particular image was not linked with the Sanders rally. In fact, it depicted a far larger demonstration that occurred more than a year earlier: It was taken in January 2015 in Paris, France, following the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks. Source: http://www.snopes.com/as-the-world-berned-picture/
