TIME Cover Featuring Vladimir Putin As Adolf Hitler Is Fake

Netizens across the globe have been sharing the fake images. One of the tweets captioned in Turkish says, "Just talking is not enough" (Original text 'Sadece konuşmak yetmez')

Click here to see the tweet and here for the archived tweet.

BOOM found several Twitter users sharing the fake images. On of the tweets featuring the second fake cover has been captioned in Spanish as, "history is cyclical"

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FACT CHECK

BOOM found that the viral images are altered versions of TIME magazine's upcoming cover that is future dated March 14/March 21, 2022.

The actual TIME cover was tweeted on February 25, 2022 from TIME's verified handle. The theme of the cover is the same as the altered images - Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Other recently published covers till February 28, 2022 can be seen in TIME's vault. The viral images are nowhere to be found in TIME's archives.

BOOM ran a reverse image search and found that one such viral cover was tweeted by Patrick Mulder - a graphic designer. We found tweets from Mulder which described the images as a 'rework' of this month's TIME magazine cover. The two images are out of a sequence of three artworks made by Mulder.

The two morphed covers have been watermarked with Mulder's name on the bottom right corner of the image.

The graphic designer also tweeted a video showing how the fake cover was made.

Below is a comparison of TIME's actual upcoming issue with Patrick Mulder's 'reworked' images.