2006-11-08 08:40:13 · 3 answers · asked by krish 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
A couple of years ago I read an article in (I think it was) Scientific American about manipulation of images on computers. The article showed three copies of a picture of former President Bush (i.e., sr.) and Mrs Thatcher, PM of the UK talking to each other while walking through a park. In the first picture, they were walking close together, almost intimately. In another, they were far apart and it looked like they were arguing. In the third, the distance was 'normal', what you would expect.
Even then (again, this was years ago, before the turn of the millennium) it was hard to tell which one was fake. It took a conscious effort to find the clues that revealed the manipulation artifacts.
My point being: it'd be a breeze to manipulate news pictures and have huge numbers of readers believe it. Pictures do lie. Or at least they can.
2006-11-08 10:04:04 · answer #1 · answered by reclame_nl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Very easily.
2006-11-08 08:44:45 · answer #2 · answered by orlandobillybob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes... right now. But it's getting harder every time.
2006-11-08 09:54:10 · answer #3 · answered by LimitedMage 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋