One of the best things I’ve read over the last few days is the story of North Korea’s ‘Ghost Army’.
The photo above first started circulating the social media and news sites on 25th March. It was a sure sign of North Korea’s military muscle – showing its Army landing Hovercraft on a beach in a 1940’s Normandy style.
On closer inspection though, news site ‘The Atlantic’ noticed that two Hovercraft crashing through the surf, nearest to the Photographer, appear to be just a single Hovercraft, with a digital twin copied and pasted nearby. Two of the more distant craft appear to be digital twins as well. A third vehicle in the scene has some of the hallmarks of digital pasting, including color mismatch, a slight halo, and soft edges.
They contacted the AFP, which distributed this image from KCNA, and they have since removed the image due to evidence of tampering.
Source: [The Atlantic]
