Thanks to technology, seeing isn’t always believing. Wired News has an article about the flood of digitally altered phony photos circulating around the ‘net.
They included some examples that I had seen before. I guessed this one was fake when I saw it, but I really believed this one was real.
Besides warning me that I’m not as skeptical as I need to be, it raises some interesting questions. I’m all in favor of parody, as long as it’s obvious like the first example.
But if it gets close enough to reality to be believable, is it crossing a line from satire to libel?