Did a poster promoting Kansas City tourism contain a typo that made it seem 25 million people visited it "anally"? No, that's not true: the image was digitally manipulated by a prankster.
The photo of the poster has been circulating for some time but it recently reappeared in a post on "Being Classically Liberal" on Facebook (archived here):
The picture looked like this:
However this is what the poster actually looked like:
The official VisitKC Twitter account corrected the record in May 2018:
We can confirm that this photo is a fake. The advertisement it features has been doctored to show a misspelling where there is none.
-- Visit KC (@VisitKC) May 7, 2018
It tweeted out two images of the poster as it was actually displayed:
Here's the original image, which has also been circulating on social media, as well as a photo of the sign from another angle. pic.twitter.com/bf0pBk3uHd
-- Visit KC (@VisitKC) May 8, 2018
