Φωτογραφία της νεαρής Άνγκελα Μέρκελ με άλλους έφηβους ηγέτες έγινε viral. Αλλά είναι ψεύτικη...

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Φωτογραφία της νεαρής Άνγκελα Μέρκελ με άλλους έφηβους ηγέτες έγινε viral. Αλλά είναι ψεύτικη...  Δεν είναι η πρώτη φορά που η φωτογραφία εμφανίζεται στο διαδίκτυο και προκαλεί σύγχυση - Συγκέντρωσε 725.000 προβολές σε μια ανάρτηση που κοινοποιήθηκε στο X στις 25 Ιουλίου  ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ ΕΠΙΣΗΣ : http://gr.euronews.com/2025/07/30/fwtografia-nearh-angkela-merkel-me-allous-efhvous-hgetes-egine-viral-alla-einai-pseutikh  Γίνε συνδρομητής! ! Το euronews είναι διαθέσιμο σε 12 γλώσσες

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00:00No, these European leaders were not snapped together in their teens.

00:09According to social media users, a picture circulating online

00:12allegedly shows former German Chancellor Angela Merkel

00:15alongside former British Prime Minister Theresa May

00:18and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

00:21The text on the photo alleges that the three childhood friends

00:24grew up together before going on to govern separate countries.

00:27The post has garnered more than 725,000 views recently after being shared on X

00:32and regularly resurfaces online.

00:34The post states that one of the teenagers in the photo is von der Leyen,

00:38but the modern-day picture below actually shows former Lithuanian president Dalia Garibaus-Kaite.

00:43Although von der Leyen was a member of Mrs Merkel's cabinet,

00:46she has never led a country contrary to the text on the photograph.

00:49As for the picture itself, by conducting a reverse image search,

00:52Euroverify traced it to an article published by Time magazine in 2015.

00:57Featuring childhood pictures of Merkel,

00:59it was published after she was nominated as Time Person of the Year in 2015.

01:03The caption states that Angela Kasner is featured on the left of the picture,

01:07at a 1972 New Year's Eve party in Berlin.

01:10Kasner is Angela Merkel's maiden name.

01:12Although Euroverify was unable to identify who the other girls in the picture are,

01:16the European Commission has previously confirmed to the media

01:19that von der Leyen does not feature in the picture.

01:22Meanwhile, Lithuanian officials told Euroverify that Garibaus-Kaite is not in the picture either.

01:27Additionally, childhood pictures of Theresa May do not resemble

01:30either of the other two teenage girls in the photograph.

01:33So yes, this is the picture of the former German Chancellor as a teenager,

01:37but the other two world leaders mentioned in the text cannot be seen in it.

01:40These kind of false online claims are regularly spread by accounts that share conspiracy theories,

01:45posing the risk of discrediting European institutions

01:49and their member states' governments with unfounded allegations.

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