Pictures of Subway stations are going viral on the Internet. Sharing the pictures, users are claiming that these pictures belong to Subway stations in Guangzhou, China.
Users are writing, ” Subway station in Guangzhou, China. This would be impossible to build in the West nowadays”. Writing the captions different pictures are being shared.
Fact Check
We investigated the viral images by using a reverse image search. On close inspection, we found that the images belong to Germany’s Subway Station. Looking closely at the images, the names of German cities were visible on the station boards: Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz and Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof.
Looking closely, we found the German text written on the hoarding in the image which read ‘Eckert’. On further investigations, we found that the Eckert is a German Hypermarket store.
The same images were also found on a German Website, Baunet Wissen. It informs that one of the images shows Leipzig City Tunnel, completed at the end of 2013, is one of the largest inner-city infrastructure projects in Europe.
Another image was also found on a German Website informing the image belongs to Ludwigshafen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof.
Conclusion
Thus, from the fact check, it is evident that the viral images do not belong to Subway stations in China. They are the pictures from Germany.
DFRAC Analysis: Misleading
