Some fakes are not so subtle John Lund/Blend Images
Pictures speak a thousand words – and faked photographs spin awfully tall tales. Take the widely circulated image of Emma Gonzalez, a teenager who survived the Parkland school shooting in Florida earlier this year.
Gonzalez, who had been campaigning for gun control, was pictured tearing up the US constitution. Except the photo had originally shown her ripping a shooting practice target.
Such “spliced” images, where two bits of visual content are merged in a convincing and often misleading way, are rife online. But an experimental algorithm could help detect such fakery…
