Why hoax?
BBC News' Mark Easton writes: "Some hoaxes are for financial gain. Others for revenge or to make some political point.…
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University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Idaho Faked Diversity
Inside Higher Ed writes: "In September of 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Idaho were…
“AP, TV organizations pull questioned video”
San Francisco Chronicle reports: "The Associated Press and video services operated by CBS and NBC have pulled video allegedly taken…
Little Green Footballs (LGF) on Iran’s previous 2007 Fauxtography scam
From 2007 Little Green Footballs post: "LGF readers tipped me off to a blatant Photoshop fraud at Iran's Fars News…
Newspapers Retract Fake Photo of Missiles they published
Haaretz Service reports: "'It's a doctored image,' said Gerard Issert, a technician at Granon, one of the largest photo laboratories…
“In an Iranian Image, Missile Too Many”
The Lede's Mike Nizza and Patrick Witty write: "As the above illustration shows, the second missile from the right appears…
Scientific American: Goebbels Doctored out of Hitler’s Nazi Picture
Sciam.com reports: "1937: In this doctored Nazi photograph, Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels [second from right] removed from the original…
Toledo Blade Fauxtographer Allan Detrich Resigns – He Doctored 79 Photos
The Children of the Underground Watch reports: "Allan Detrich, the controversial photojournalist who we alleged was not just photographing and…
Scientific American: Digital Forensics:
Hany Farid reports: "Modern software has made manipulation of photographs easier to carry out and harder to uncover than ever…
Blast to Fauxgraphy’s Past : Fake troops found in Bush’s 2004 ad
mithras the prophet writes: "Appropriately titled "Whatever It Takes", the new BC04 ad uses Bush's convention acceptance speech, stirring music,…