Mediaite reports:
The graphic showed an image of President Joe Biden superimposed over a photo of the empty shelves. But as one eagle-eyed Twitter user pointed out, the image is actually from a 2011 NPR story about residents fleeing the disaster area near the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
This isn’t the first time Fox News has used photos of empty shelves that have nothing to do with the contemporary U.S. economy. In October, The Ingraham Angle issued a correction after it aired photos from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic during a segment about global supply chain problems.
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Uhh is this the same picture? pic.twitter.com/NzYkWrAAFc
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 13, 2022
Fox News Airs 11-Year-Old Photo of Empty Shelves in Japan to Slam ‘Bare Shelves Biden’ https://t.co/9UezywkS9s via @mediaite
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) January 13, 2022