Lying clickbait: ‘Photos taken seconds before tragedy’

The internet never sleeps and neither does lying clickbait.
Shady content promotion services are constantly bombarding web surfers with clickbait articles using erroneous or fake photos.
One tactic they like to use is “photos taken seconds before tragedy struck.” Often these articles are promoted with photos where tragedy didn’t occur. Sometimes the pictures show daredevils on buildings or cliffs.
I’ve written several times about photos taken at Pedra do Telegrafo in Brazil. In pictures, people hanging off a rock there look like they’re dangling over the abyss, even though they’re just a few feet off the ground. It’s a photographic trick. (See “Fake news! Lying clickbait exposed!”)
A recent clickbait post from Revcontent titled “23 heartbreaking photos taken seconds before tragedy struck” used a photo of a woman leaning off a skyscraper ledge.
But fear not. The woman and her male companion weren’t injured. What they did was dangerous, but did not result in tragedy.
The picture shows Russian model Victoria Odintcova balancing precariously on the ledge of the Cayan Tower in Dubai. She got in trouble with the cops for the stunt, but survived. (See articles by USA Today, Cosmopolitan and The Sun.)

Another Revcontent article titled “26 final photos taken seconds before tragedy” used a picture of a woman with a stingray on her back. The woman is OK. She is one of many tourists to Stingray City in the Cayman Islands. The tour guides sometimes photobomb guests, usually women, by lifting stingrays on to their backs.
(See articles by HN Style and the New York Daily News.)

Finally, a clickbait article titled “China’s lethal new navy warship is no ordinary vessel” used an artist’s conception of a “catamaran” aircraft carrier. It’s pure flight of fancy.
The picture is the work of U.K. artist Doug Hilliard, aka ZedderZulu on DeviantArt.