A picture claiming to show Tesco carrots grown in Chernobyl has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook.
But as we’ve written before, this picture has been edited and was originally shared as a joke.
A clearer version of the picture, posted to X (formerly Twitter) in 2020 shows that the label has been digitally drawn over to hide the real production location, while the text reading “Chernobyl” does not curve with the plastic packaging indicating it has been added later.
The person who shared the picture later added a follow-up post in which he described it as an “in-joke” adding, “I can confirm that Tesco’s are not selling badly photoshopped radioactive carrots”.
Tesco also confirmed to Full Fact last year that the image is fake and that it…
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