Emily Keegin

Yeah.

It's very humbling, isn't it?

It is.

Yeah.

Well, I think, honestly, I'm really sad to admit this, but I was fooled by the photographs from last weekend of the Nicolas Maduro capture in Venezuela.

There were a few that went around that were horizontal and show him handcuffed outside of a plane.

And the reason that I...

believed them to be real, and I believed them to be real for like 24 hours, was because they had been shared on Instagram by someone who I trusted.

And that person had created a reel about how they looked very similar to Saddam Hussein pictures from 2003.

So...

I had just kind of gone with it.

And when we see images on these platforms, we're seeing them very small.

We're seeing them very quickly.

And both of those things make it very hard to sit with an image and decode it and make sure that it's real.

So I'm embarrassed to say I was tricked by that.

You know, I came up in news magazines.

My job has been to check the truth of an image.

That's that was my job is my job.

So I didn't do due diligence in this one.

And, you know, we can't take candy from strangers anymore.