Great Falls, Virginia, as told by lying clickbait

Great Falls, Virginia, is a quiet, woodsy, upscale suburb of Washington, D.C. But location-based clickbait advertisements tell a very different story about the community.
I live on the border of Great Falls in the town of Vienna, so I get location-based ads for those communities as well as Washington, D.C.
Internet advertisers only customize the text of their ads, so some of the photos they use are pretty ridiculous. They’ll say Great Falls, Va., but show a desert landscape, for instance.
Here are some of the latest examples of inaccurate depictions of Great Falls and the surrounding region, according to lying clickbait.

Let’s start with the lovely ladies of Great Falls. There are many beautiful women here, of course, just not the ones clickbait ads are showing.
One ad distributed by Revcontent shouted “Meet the girl in Great Falls!” It showed a fit lady in a tight miniskirt. “The girl” is actually Instagram model Anna Nystrom from Stockholm, Sweden. That particular photo was taken on April 11.

Another dating service ad carried by Revcontent was headlined “Divorced woman looking for new partner in Great Falls.” It used a photo of former teenage Instagram model Claire Abbott. She is from Canada.
(For more on Abbott, see the articles “What Happened to Claire Abbott, Famous Instagram Model?” by the Frisky and “Why Did This Famous Instagram Model Disappear?” by Travelfuntu.)

If you believed lying clickbait, this area also has some famous attorneys and judges.
Outbrain distributed an ad titled “The cost for an elite Great Falls attorney might surprise you.” It used a photo of Julianna Margulies from the CBS television series “The Good Wife.”

Another Outbrain ad titled “Virginia may pay off your home if you live near Great Falls.” It used a photo of Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, who is overseeing the case of school shooter Nikolas Cruz in Broward County, Florida.

Lying clickbait articles about “new rules” often feature pictures of women being arrested. Often they are stock images, but occasionally the selections are really odd.
One article titled “Little-known rule leaves Great Falls, Virginia, drivers stunned.” It used a news photo of Jamie Lyn Basinger of Morganton, N.C. She was charged with involuntary manslaughter and felony child abuse in the March 2017 death of her 3-year-old son.

A clickbait article titled “New rule in Great Falls, Virginia. (Drivers are furious)” used an on-set photo from the HBO series “Girls.” It showed actress Jemima Kirke getting arrested for a scene in the show. (See article by the Daily Mail.)

An article titled “New rule in Washington, District of Columbia” used a photo of actress Debby Ryan who was pretending to get arrested at a charity event in 2014. (See article by TeenInfoNet.)

Finally, an article titled “You may not believe the prices on these new cars in Vienna” used an image of a lot filled with new cars and vans in Brazil. The picture is available on Getty Images from photographer Luoman.

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