Fact Check-Image of Tom Hanks wearing anti-Trump t-shirt is digitally altered

[Celerity]

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check-hanks-trump-idUSL1N30N1RD

An image that appears to show U.S. actor Tom Hanks wearing an anti-Trump t-shirt is digitally altered. In the original image, published by outlets in August 2022, Hanks can be seen wearing a plain navy t-shirt. One user shared the altered image on Twitter on Sept. 14, 2022, with a caption that reads: “Is that you tome [sic] hanks?...how about we keep america hanksless!!!!...” (here). The tweet had more than 2,000 likes at the time of writing.

Link to tweet

Other examples of the image shared on social media can be found (here), (here), (here) and (here). The original photograph was published by various outlets including The Daily Mail (here), with credit to photographer Felipe Ramales of Splash News.



Reuters has previously addressed digitally altered images that appear to show celebrities, including Hanks, wearing t-shirts with political messages (here), (here), (here).


VERDICT

Altered. The original image shows actor Tom Hanks wearing a plain navy t-shirt.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Just a reminder that you cannot trust ANYTHING you see online.

[Hamlette]

2. I thought something was off by looking at his hat in the altered image

Thanks for clearing that up

[IbogaProject]

3. Yep

The altered image is a mirror of the original.

[Hamlette]

8. I thought it was some new symbol with a "Y" and a backwards "N" like in the Russian alphabet

I wondered if this was some political statement on his hat. Everybody hates the yankees.

[Celerity]

11. the Gucci belt was reversed though too

[Hamlette]

14. ouch, you made me click to the original tweet to see the belt and it wasn't pretty

the tweet was from an obvious Trumper. Did a trumper do the photoshop to show Hanks as anti-Trump? I'm lost here. I'm also lost when I think about one of us frequenting that tweeter.

[Celerity]

15. I doubt it was a Trumper. Just some rando looking for clicks and kicks.

[Hamlette]

18. not so sure

I read several of the comments posted about the pic. Those are usually (no, not always) from followers. A very high percentage of them were nutzo Trumpers (ie Hanks is a pedi, looks like he has cancer, etc)

[BlackSkimmer]

4. And yet it was posted here.

And cheered.

[Celerity]

12. and the OP still has not taken it down, despite knowing it is fake news for ages

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217232625

[TheProle]

19. The democratization of the internet

has made everyone a would-be propagandist. But it doesn’t make everyone equally effective.

[gldstwmn]

5. It's completely bizarre to me the way some people have gone after Tom Hanks.

He doesn't even post on social media anymore.

[XanaDUer2]

6. Thank you for posting this

Nt

[demmiblue]

7. K&R

Sadly, this will probably sink... the fake one made the front page of DU. Not a very good look.

[sl8]

10. K&R. nt

[dembotoz]

13. alas our hopes and dreams sometimes do not come to be.

the only thing that will remove trump and his ilk is our votes.
has been that way from day one, will be that way tomorrow
as much as i admire him, Mr Hanks will not do it for us.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

16. anything to get the evil simpletons to fight

[krawhitham]

17. The fact that the New York Yankee logo is reversed in the hat should have been a dead give away

[Polybius]

20. Hanks is a liberal, but doesn't flaunt it and rarely talks about politics

Which is one of the many reasons that he is awesome.

[Celerity]

21. That has nothing to do with fake news being posted here, celebrated, & still, to this day, not being

taken down by the OP maker, despite their OP being proven to be bollocks.