robtromboning

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

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

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

I can type in whatever i want like this

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

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

chescaleigh

this is terrifying

superbrybread

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

justanotheridijiton

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