Massive Fake News Campaign Targets Brazil’s Amazon Fires

Seemingly everybody has heard about the fires burning in the Amazon, creating smoke and haze events in cities as far away as Sao Paulo. The question is, who is spreading the alarm and is it real or fake?
The hysteria over Brazil’s “lungs of the earth” has even become a central contention at the G7 meeting in Europe, with global leaders calling for intervention to save the Amazon jungle.
The problem is that most pictures being circulated on social media are NOT of this year&rsqu