Nicola Sturgeon Vox Image Confusion

Nicola Sturgeon Vox Image Confusion

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The Nicola Sturgeon Vox Image Confusion refers to an image that was mistakenly used in an article featured in the American magazine Vox which was of the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon where they had used a picture of her at a Glasgow science lab and mistook it as a stock image.

Origin

The American media brand Vox had published an article on August 18th, 2017 which featured on the topic of healthcare which was focused on House of Representive member John Coyners.

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In the article published, there was different sections devoted to different subjects on the topic featured and one of the pictures included in the section was a picture of First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon who was visiting a Glasgow science lab in Scotland. Vox was mistaken after they used the image on the article

Since then, the image of Nicola Sturgeon has been removed from the article.

Spread

After the article was published, Twitter users started to notice the image of Nicola Sturgeon on the article.

Twitter user @JamieRoss7 was one of the first to notice and tweet about the mistake.

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BBC News, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard were just some examples of media outlets that reported on the mistake.

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