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A viral image purportedly showing the cover of _TIME_ magazine is being shared on social media claiming that the magazine wrote 'impeachment' as the title in its August edition

featuring United States (US) President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. This comes in the backdrop of the US withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban taking control of

the country. However, we found that the viral cover has been altered and the 23 August edition of the magazine, which is the latest one, does not feature Biden and Harris. The text in the

viral cover mentions, "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris —Changing America's history." The claim along the viral cover reads: "Is it time for Joe to go?" The image shared

by a Facebook account called 'Shall not be infringed' had garnered 150 shares at the time of writing the article. Several social media users shared the viral image on Facebook and

Twitter with a similar claim and the archived version of the posts can be viewed here, here and here. WHAT WE FOUND OUT We searched for the recent edition of _TIME_ magazine and found that

the edition released on 23 August does not feature US President Joe Biden on its cover. The web version of the 23 August edition of the magazine can be viewed here. Further, we conducted a

Google reverse image search on the viral image that led us to the 21 December 2020 issue of the magazine titled as 'Person of the year.' The cover of the 21 December 2020 edition

can also be seen in the gallery of covers of the editions released in 2020. On comparing the viral image with the cover released in December 2020, we found several similarities and

differences that suggested that the latter has been altered to create the viral one. For instance, the text on Biden and US Vice President Kamala Harris is same in both the cases. Next, the

cut outs of Biden and Harris have been altered to add the head gear and burkha respectively. Also, the official cover has 'time.com' written at the bottom right, however,

'ildonaldo.com' is mentioned in the viral one. Evidently, an altered version of _TIME_ magazine's cover was shared by social media users falsely claiming that the magazine

mentioned 'impeachment' in its cover on US President Joe Biden. _(Not convinced of a post or information you came across online and want it verified? Send us the details on

WhatsApp at 9643651818, or e-mail it to us at [email protected] and we'll fact-check it for you. You can also read all our fact-checked stories_ _here.)_ Published: 28 Aug 2021, 2:40

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