The recent youtube video showing an eagle swooping down to grab a toddler was faked.
The uncertainty of imagery: The recent youtube viral video showing an eagle swooping down to grab a toddler was faked.
Based on this example alone, it is becoming increasingly possible to fake a news story. You better have multiple sources on any strange event or else take it with a grain of salt.
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The uncertainty of imagery: The recent youtube viral video showing an eagle swooping down to grab a toddler was faked.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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You don’t have to be much more than mildly skeptical to discover the more extreme fakes. A simple Google search will usually reveal the forgery.
Snopes is a good source for identifying these:
http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp
And I’m sure there are many more that I’m not familiar with.
IMHO the more insidious image manipulation bend the truth instead of breaking it:
The super model that is just too perfect
Facial expressions changed
etc…
These kinds of changes are par for the course on many billboards, magazines & newspapers. Although less spectacular than the eagle posted above they are pervasive and distort our perceptions.
I’ve been feeling for some time now that we are entering an age when it will become increasingly difficult to determine what’s real & what’s fake. Someone could be completely set up & framed for a crime using video or photos. At this time, it’s still possible to ferret out the truth, but I wonder for how much longer??
I would be surprised if forged images and videos lead to a significant number of convictions. It is very, very hard to create a forgery that would hold up to the thorough analysis it would receive in court.
It’s the causal, non-thorough analysis that worries me most.