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A message that arouses feelings: At the beginning of August, Paul McCartney was visiting the Phil Collins’ hospital in a Hospital in London. At the edge of the bed, he serenaded the drummer colleague with a “Hey Jude”.

Made complex, but complete fake!

The contribution of the Facebook page “Rock & Roll Universe” is equipped with pictures of a McCartney Collins computation and a music-making Macca, while the Genesis legend is surrounded by medical staff.

“Hey Jude” serenade for sick collins …

By the last weekend, this fantasy creation recorded more than 88,000 reactions and more than 16,000 shares from this post
From the top emozi drawer, the corresponding head text: “This afternoon there was unusual silence in the hallways of the London hospital, when Paul McCartney arrived quietly, with the same old guitar, which has been accompanied by him for decades. Phil Collins was motionless on the fifth floor- frail and pale after months of serious complications because of his spine and spine and Heart diseases. Each text radiated warmth into sterile space, moved the nurses to tears…. ”

The American fact-tested platform Snopes bothered to analyze this “story” in more detail. Especially since there were already similar purring, something when Bob Dylan was said to have appeared with a bouquet of flowers at Phil Collins. The AI recognition website Sightengine found here and there that the probability of generation of images with AI engine is 99 %.

McCartney: right -handed and five strings – of course!

There are also grotesque-funny detailed errors: McCartney grabs the instrument in the right-handed modes. As is well known, he is left -handed. For strange reasons, the guitar shown has only five strings. And McCartney’s right hand, like Mickey Mouse in Disney comic, has only three fingers and a thumb.

The Snopes researchers made the effort to question the Collins’ management about his current state of health. There was no confirmation whether he would continue to be in the hospital. At the end of July, however, verified reports were circulating that he had recovered from knee surgery.

It is very likely that you now have to familiarize yourself with the term “glurge”. Including English-speaking dictionaries below: “Often as an e-mail-sending stories that appear true and moving, but mostly invented and are very sentimental”.

LED-Zeppelin singer Robert Plant was also a “glurge” case in July: he is said to have built makeshift accommodation for the victims of the large flood disaster in Texas.

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