A story doing the rounds on the internet claiming that a Carnival cruise ship has sunk has been described as a “prank”. But it’s more than that, it’s a lie that misleads would-be passengers and capitalises on a real tragedy.
A picture of the partly submerged Costa Concordia, on which 32 people died in 2012, was used with the story, which claimed the Carnival Triumph had sunk off the coast of Mexico.
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