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Are you flying the colors of Vatican City? It might be a literal false flag.
Catholic News Agency reports — based on some prior Reddit sleuthing — that a bunch of Vatican City flags out in the world are wrong because they’re based on a bogus file from Wikimedia Commons.
According to the file history, the fateful edit was made in July, 2017 for purposes of “color correction.”
(The reverted file can be seen below.)
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