“Photo of Rainbow Mountain from Peru”
Social media posts
Claim dated 28 Jan 2022.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
he photo is of ‘Scala dei Turchi’ (roughly translated to ‘Turkish Steps’), which is a rocky cliff in Sicily, Italy. Rainbow Mountain or Vinicunca is a mountain in the Andes of Peru which was discovered nearly seven years ago in 2015 when the snow covering it melted
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 28 January 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 31 January 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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