The claim
A photo shows a man with a huge tumor and is asked to like the picture.
Our conclusion
The photo is real, but was taken in 2014. The tumor was successfully removed, the distribution of the photo is pure Likebait.
If you have friends on Facebook who share posts like the one about the man and the giant tumor, you might want to reconsider your friendship.
And the inquiries show us that the contributions are also shared in German-speaking countries. A photo shows a man with a huge tumor and we are asked if this is real. Yes, the photo was real... in 2014!
Likebait with the photo
You don't need smart posts to get lots of likes and shares on Facebook. Very often just a stolen, old photo is enough to arouse pity. This is also a good investment because such sites can later be easily sold on the dark web.
That's probably what will happen with this page with the photo: Apparently the page belongs to a band called "Gk072" (about which nothing can be found anywhere), the page has only existed since April 15th and the only photo posted was that of Man with the tumor:
By the way, many accounts that post and share these and other images are not random users, but there is a system behind it: The accounts mostly come from Asia, are networked with each other, repost each other, link to each other, systematically build pages with a lot of likes, which are then sold for a profit - and then users wonder about pages in their news stream that they supposedly “never liked”.
The photo is real - but from 2014
, several sites (for example HERE and HERE ) reported on the Chinese Yang Jianbin, whose tumor had been growing since he was nine years old. At the age of 37, the tumor had already reached a weight of 110 kilograms.
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A team of doctors from Beijing operated on him for 16 hours and were able to completely remove the tumor.
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