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Doctored images have become a fact of life for political campaigns. When they’re disproved, believers ‘just don’t care.’
Viral online disinformation is being used to inflame a politician's base and vilify their enemies: "There’s a shared form of apathy in some cases for the fact that it was manipulated at all.”
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Anyone can go viral, build an audience or score political points by altering an image into a fake one — and doing so is not only accepted, but encouraged by the modern Web. An online viewer can see a new fake image practically every minute, distributed freely and anonymously by communities that constantly reinforce their own ideas.