Yesterday I exposed some palestinian fauxtography from a tweeter called Marian Ghnem. Following my post, they deleted the tweet in question – which showed a child from Pakistan, not Gaza
and replaced it with a new tweet
Yup, you guessed it.
An Afghan boy leans against a wall as he cries on the outskirts of Kabul on October 4, 2011. Afghanistan is at the bottom of the Mothers’ Index, compiled by the nonprofit group Save the Children, shows mothers and their children endure “grim conditions,” with one in six kids dying before age five and one in three suffering from malnutrition. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP via Getty Images)
Consider for a second what happened: A palestinian propagandist deliberately tweets out a photo from Pakistan, trying to pass it off as a photo from Gaza. Gets caught. Deletes the offending tweet. Proceeds to search for a new misleading photo (this time from Afghanistan) and tweets that out.
This is really like a game of whack-a-mole.
Luckily I can whack moles in my sleep.
