Kremlin Has Mastered Propaganda, But Not Photoshop
: Fake MH17 Photo Lights Up RuNet * Global Voices
Bad Fauxtography brought to you from Putin’s Kremlin.
The photo shows MH17 a bit north of Donetsk being fired upon by a ‘fighter jet,’ presumably Ukraine’s, with a missile en route. A number of pro-Kremlin bloggers and Russian news outlets immediately shared this news as a smoking gun, claiming that what most in the West had dismissed as a conspiracy was now indisputable. However, as many on the RuNet immediately noticed, this image was just too good to be true.
Russian Twitter user Abu quickly noticed an inconsistency in the source of Mikhail Leontyev’s find, tracing the satellite photo to an older post on a web forum in October:
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— Abu (@abunyasha) November 14, 2014
This photo is a month old.
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