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A stronger form of propaganda would be for the other side of a conflict to generate and circulate a fake photo, then have fact checkers determine that it's fake
by SantalBlush 3y ago
A stronger form of propaganda would be for the other side of a conflict to generate and circulate a fake photo, then have fact checkers determine that it's fake. Then people would come to their own conclusions, "If this photo is fake, then maybe most of the violence against this group is also fake."
When you're actually being bombed, creating a fake photo of the devastation would do more harm than good, since you have plenty of authentic evidence to draw from.
- HWR_14 3y agoI doubt that. Retractions or evidence a story was fake never get the distribution of the original. Or if they do it's years later and academic.
- pasabagi 3y agoI bet this article will get far more imprints than yet another picture of a dead Palestinian baby. The Gaza strip has an median age of 18, and collateral damage is non-discriminate by nature, so it's not like it's plausible to imagine that babies aren't dying in large numbers.
- roshin 3y agoIf Israel creates an AI photo of destruction in Gaza, and then debunks it, that in itself won't have that much of an effect. However, if that photo is published by official Hamas outlets, and put on the front page of many mainstream media, only to later be proven as fake, that will (rightfully) lower the trust in Hamas and MSM. See the hospital story as a recent example.