Newseum’s Online Doctored Photo Exhibit
In 2001, the Newseum in Washington DC first posted an ongoing online exhibition titled, "The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of…
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Japanese TV falls for fake photo scam featuring Kim Jong-Un
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NY Times Kid Texting Photo: Staged danger?
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South Shore Press says photo doctoring okay
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Walter Cronkite saw problems with “news sources on the Internet”
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Hearing Stories, Telling Stories
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TechCrunch says: We can publish stolen Twitter documents
eLearnspace reports, "TechCrunch received over 300 documents from an individual who had hacked into Twitter’s network...The information ranges from silly…
Newsweek’s Crazy Oprah Report has Axe to Grind
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ABC News Time Travel?
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