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Fact Check: Time magazine cover showing Donald Trump as ‘Man of the Ear’ is doctored

Time is a monthly magazine with a unique cover featuring an influential person of that month. Since 1927, Time magazine has been choosing a person of the year, which is the editor’s assessment of the individual who shaped the headlines

By 20 July 2024 10:45 AM GMT
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  • Claim :

    Viral image shows Time magazine cover featuring Donald Trump after he was injured in the assassination attempt

  • Fact :

    The viral image is a doctored one, it has been created using software to create a fake Time magazine cover

Time is a monthly magazine with a unique cover featuring an influential person of that month. Since 1927, Time magazine has been choosing a person of the year, which is the editor’s assessment of the individual who shaped the headlines over the previous 12 months, for better or for worse.

Meanwhile, a viral image of Trump with a bandaged ear on the likes of the Time magazine cover with the caption ‘Man of the Ear’ is going viral on social media with the claim that Time Magazine has published this on its cover. This image went viral after the Presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump was shot at in an assassination attempt, while he was speaking at a campaign rally and the bullet pierced the upper part of his ear. The image was shared by several people including Shobha De with the caption “Brilliant’.




Fact Check:

The claim is False. Time magazine did not publish the viral image.

Firstly, there is no date published on the viral image. When we searched for the latest Time magazine covers in the Time magazine vault, we found the July 15 cover featuring Melinda French Gates.


Here is the link to the vault of all the Time magazine covers published since the year 1927.

The incident of the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump will be featured on the cover page of Time that is to be published on date August 5, 2024. However, the image of this cover does not match with the viral image. When we searched for Man of the Year or Person of the Year, we found that the choice for the Person of the Year 2023 was Taylor Swift. The person of the year 2024 is yet to be announced.

According to an article published by Time, most fake covers get the logo wrong. It's either too vertically scaled, the word TIME is tracked out too much and the logo is in a different font altogether. It also stated that most of the fake covers include a red border, while not including the thin white border that separates the red from the image.

We also found an online tool named Kapwing which creates fake Time magazine covers. The tool creates a template to create a mockup. Anyone can be named as the person of the year in this template.


Therefore, the image going viral with the Time magazine cover after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump is a doctored one. It was generated using a software named Kapwing. Using this template, anyone can create a Time cover magazine naming anyone as Person of the Year. The claim is False.

Claim :   Viral image shows Time magazine cover featuring Donald Trump after he was injured in the assassination attempt
Claimed By :  Twitter users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Fact Check
Claim Source :  Twitter
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - Time magazine cover showing Donald Trump as ‘Man of the Ear’ is doctored
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Satya Priya BN

A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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