Silver Tongue

justanotheridijiton:

superbrybread:

chescaleigh:

robtromboning:

let me demonstrate my point wrt doctoring social media using my twitter

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here’s my original tweet here

if i right click and click “inspect element” on chrome and find the line that says my actual tweet like so

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and select that line, right click, and click “edit as html”

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I can type in whatever i want like this

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and like that i can make a screenshot that says that i like to eat children and use it to call myself out

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and thats why you should’t believe screenshots of tweets at face value w/o a link to the original tweet

this is terrifying

this is terrifying because no matter how many notes this post gets, people on tumblr still don’t think about sources

See also:

Feldman, Brian. (2015, Dec 11). “It Is Incredibly Easy to Fake a Screenshot. Here’s How” http://nymag.com/selectall/2015/11/how-to-fake-a-screenshot.html

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