Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:09:49 am
Several LGF readers emailed about this photo published by an Iranian newspaper and posted on several Twitter feeds, which was apparently Photoshopped to make the crowd look larger. It does look like a pretty clear example of photo manipulation, but so far I haven’t been able to discover which newspaper ...

Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:28:35 pm
10 News photos that took retouching too far.

Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:29:24 am
This morning we have another case of classic misdirection from the Eurofascist-supporting twins, Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller; they’ve both posted long ad hominem screeds attacking me for “falling for fauxtography.” Apparently, one of the photos I used to illustrate my post yesterday about the neo-facscist and outright neo-Nazi connections of ...

Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:38:01 am
Yesterday when we posted about the participation of Pamela Geller (owner of “Atlas Shrugs”) in a German anti-Islam conference organized by a group with extensive ties to neo-Nazis, the latest word was that Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch had not yet confirmed his participation. Today “Pro Köln” has announced that Spencer ...

Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:00:45 pm
In the midst of a liveblogging session on the conflict in Gaza, the Muqata raised the alarm about a possible fauxtograph: The Muqata: Day 12 of the War, Wednesday, January 7, 2009. The picture he noticed was filed by AP photographer Adel Hana in Gaza: An explosion is seen after an ...

Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:34:10 am
Apparently ABC News didn’t get the memo that a recent photograph from North Korea featuring Kim Jong-Il was a probable fake, because they’re publishing another version of it again today. Here’s an article at the London Times about this piece of apparent fauxtography: Photoshop failure in Kim Jong Il image? A closeup ...

Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:24:46 pm
It might be the first peer-reviewed study that begins with the words, “OK, now things are getting weird.” Reviewing Fauxtography: A blog-driven challenge to mass media power without the promises of networked publicity. Abstract During the Israel–Hezbollah War of 2006, bloggers caught Reuters publishing doctored images from Lebanon. Known by bloggers as ...

Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:27:31 am
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris interviewed me a few weeks ago about the Iranian fauxtography incident, and today the interview and his excellent piece on the use of faked photos is in the New York Times: Photography as a Weapon - Errol Morris.

Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:12:07 pm
(Hat tip: Fluffster.) UPDATE at 7/11/08 1:54:59 pm: Also see: Attack of the Photoshopped Missiles (Updated).

Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:23:24 am
Memo to Fox News and the New York Times: No, the New York Times did not break this story: Photo of Detonated Iranian Missiles Appears to Have Been Digitally Altered. Please see: LGF: Iran’s Photoshopped Missile Launch. UPDATE at 7/10/08 11:33:17 am: In their article, the New York Times fails to credit LGF: In ...

Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:40:33 am
We got knocked off line by a huge surge in traffic, going to the Iranian Fauxtography thread. Stinky Beaumont is checking the wiring and the hamsters are stocked up with energy bars again. Here’s an open thread while we run some tests... UPDATE at 7/10/08 9:13:38 am: We’re currently handling over 8,000 ...

Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:50:17 pm
You may have noticed that I've organized the stuff in our left sidebar with a series of "accordion" menus; some call this style the Flippy Triangle, since a little triangle indicates whether the menu is currently expanded or not, by ... flipping, believe it or not. Here's the technique I'm using ...

Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:04:03 pm
A great piece by Stephen D. Cooper: A Concise History of the Fauxtography Blogstorm in the 2006 Lebanon War - American Communication Journal.

Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:21:05 pm
Looks like someone got a little ... uh ... over-zealous with Photoshop in a yearbook for McKinney High School in Texas: Students’ photos altered in McKinney yearbook. Imagine posing for a yearbook photo and ending up with someone else’s body – or looking nude – in the final product. Yearbook photos ...

Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:39:19 pm
Fadel Shana, a cameraman for the Reuters wire service, was killed yesterday in Gaza, under somewhat suspicious circumstances. And oddly enough, there were 10 hits yesterday from the UK Canary Wharf office of Reuters; all of those hits went to this LGF page from 2006, when a car Shana was riding ...

Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:31:00 pm
Now the jihadis are getting into the throbbing fauxtography act: Elder of Ziyon: Hamas exposes other terrorist fauxtography. Also see: Snapped Shot: Fauxtography, Jihadi-Style.

Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:34:17 am
Bloggers in Tennessee have caught a local “alternative” paper running a doctored photograph of a GOP politician. Rep. Stacey Campfield said he doesn’t mind a little controversy. The Knoxville lawmaker once tried to join the black caucus. So, when he championed the law to not allow homosexual and transgender teaching in ...

Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 9:24:42 am
There’s been a lot of discussion in our comments about the latest staged photographs from Reuters and the Associated Press, showing Hamas legislators forced to “meet by candlelight” because of power cuts in Gaza. Mohammed Salem of Reuters and Hatem Moussa of the Associated Press both filed photographs of the ...

Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 5:20:13 pm
As part of the propaganda show around the Mohammed al-Dura incident, the father of the boy was paraded in front of cameras with “wounds” supposedly caused by Israeli bullets. Now Nidra Poller has a PJ Media report from France on newly discovered medical records that prove those wounds date back ...

Tue, Oct 2, 2007 at 5:38:51 pm
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee, a UK radical Islamic front group that doesn’t even try to hide their vile antisemitism (they’ve previously linked to and used images from neo-Nazi web sites), has published the name, address, and phone number of a shop that’s selling... gasp!... blood dates! Alert! Blood Dates: ...

Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 9:44:11 am
A French court has ordered France 2 television to produce the unedited tapes of the Mohammed al-Dura incident. The most damaging case of fauxtography in history may finally be unraveling.

Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at 9:23:40 am
The field of fauxtography is getting even stranger, with new software that modifies images by removing and/or adding “seams” of less important information, allowing images to be stretched and compressed without visual distortion. That’s impressive enough, but the real jawdropper is how easy it is to completely remove people from photographs, ...

Fri, Aug 3, 2007 at 9:36:40 am
For some reason, we’re getting a lot of referrals from this year-old page at Digg.com, linking to our exposé of the Reuters fauxtography incident: Digg - Fake but accurate: Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? It’s a textbook study in idiot leftist denial. And I’m not only talking about the comments. At ...

Wed, May 30, 2007 at 9:19:30 am
Since I’ve been getting dozens of emails about Rusty’s post at mypetjawa, I’m going to repeat what I said last weekend when the subject came up at LGF: in my opinion, there is absolutely no evidence that the photograph Rusty is discussing here is a case of fauxtography. I like ...

Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 9:53:02 am
During Israel’s war against Hizballah, at LGF we were continually outraged by the media’s uncritical promulgation of terrorist propaganda, and their overwhelming bias against Israel. The barrage of staged and manipulated disinformation culminated in the infamous Adnan Hajj fauxtography incident; and it can be argued that the culture of tacit ...