Response to North Korea Marine Landing Photoshop: AFP Pulls Photo, Cites Evidence of Tampering
April 1st (Happy April Fool's Day!)

I found this article to be really revealing of our time. With all of our new crazy technology we can create images that are completely fake and fool people (hmm interesting correlation to April Fool's Day). With tools like PhotoShop that are now easily torrented or bought people can learn and use them for good or for bad. This photoshopped North Korean Marine Landing is a prime example of how this technology can be used for the latter. So many people rely on virtual ways of getting their news and if it is tampered or incorrect then this can cause people to mistrust the information that they are receiving and or they can blindly follow it which causes all sorts of other problems. My mom is really into political conspiracies at the moment and this is especially evident in her case. I've been trying to remind her that you cannot always trust what you see on YouTube. Some people just get their kicks from tampering with the facts and this can be harmful for the people who don't look further into it.