It seems to happen every time there’s a major flood: Someone will post on social media a photo of a shark and say it’s swimming up the highway of whichever city is being inundated by rain.
The photo circulating this time, claiming a shark has been spotted on a Texas highway in Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, is fake.
This isn’t the only rumor being spread during the hurricane. Some are well-intentioned; some are emotional; some are just misleading, and some are kind of funny.
"Believe it or not," one Twitter user, who claims to be a Scottish journalist and blogger based in Dublin, wrote on the social media platform. He later acknowledged the photo as fake in a blog post, calling it an "accidental 'fake news' experiment."
For more hoaxes making their rounds on social media, read the full story on MyAJC.com.
Brianna Chambers contributed to this report.