French President Emmanuel Macron, Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio were among the celebrities who distributed on social media at least a dozen different photos of fires that purported to illustrate a crisis in the Amazon rain forest.

The problem is they weren't taken this year, and many might not even be of the rain forest, the Washington Times reported.

Fact-checkers included the far-left Mother Jones and Agence-France Presse, which found some of the photos came from blazes in California, India and other places.

Busted! Celebrities fact-checked after sharing fake photos of Amazon fire - WND
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Busted! Celebrities fact-checked after sharing fake photos of Amazon fire - WND

French President Emmanuel Macron, Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio were among the celebrities who tweeted fake photos of Amazon fires