In 2017, a sophisticated imposter version of Le Soir
in Belgium emerged claiming that Macron was being
funded by Saudi Arabia. So sophisticated was it that
all the hyperlinks in this version took you to the real
Le Soir site.
An imposter site posing as Belgian newspaper
Le Soir was particularly sophisticated because
all of their links directed users to the real
Le Soir site. The imposter site has been taken
down but the original reporting on the site is
available on the CrossCheck France website.
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The Parkland, Florida, shooting in February 2018
was the backdrop for two very worrying techniques
emerging around this category of imposter content.
The first involved someone taking a Miami Herald
story and photoshopping in another paragraph
(suggesting that another school had received threats
of a similar shooting), screenshotting that and then
circulating on Snapchat.
Someone photoshopped a new paragraph
into a Miami Herald story to make it appear
like additional schools were receiving threats
of shootings when they were not. Archived on
September 6 2019.21 Screenshot by author.
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