The physicist had published a few days ago a photo of a slice of salami on a black background and claimed that it was an image of the closest star to the suntaken with the new space telescope james webb (JWST).
“Photo of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light years from us. It was taken by JWST. What a level of detail… A new world is revealed day after dayKlein wrote on Twitter.
The publication was disclosed by the digital media HuffPost and shared massively on networks: it reached 1,334 retweets Y 10,000 likes. Due to the viralization and the controversy, Klein had to go out and clarify that it was a joke and to apologize to those who fell into it.
“I was surprised by the extent of the diffusion: I thought the image would immediately be detected as fake. And when I saw that a leading journalist from BFMTV (a French 24-hour news channel) was getting excited about the subject and risking spreading it, I told him it was a joke. He took it with a lot of humorKlein admitted to AFP.
“A farce has educational value. It speaks to our ability to be deceived, questions our relationship with sources”he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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