• MonsterMonster@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I smell a rat.

    The image for this article, and the same family in slightly different poses, can be found across multiple websites.

    The image held within the archived Telegraph article seems to be a generic library image yet there appears to be no reference of this. The footnote of the image implies this is the “hard up” family.

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      6 days ago

      Maybe they had to sell their photos to an agency so they could afford that 5th holiday. Times are hard.

      There is at least a real Telegraph article, but it’s odd that they seem to have used a stock photo, as you point out.

      https://archive.ph/BRKtd

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      5 days ago

      I don’t think it matters too much because what the family looks like isn’t important, but I agree that it seems intended to imply that that is a photo of the family

      It is pretty funny that they chose the most stock-photo-looking stock photo ever taken though