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Faux-Astroturfing

By Brian C. Ledbetter · Thursday, June 18. 2009 08:50
Crowd Inflation (photo via Berlingske)


The German magazine Berlingske has discovered that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's supporters in Iran have been fudging the coverage of the pro-Mahmoud rallies in Tehran. Given the fact that the Iranian government is also furiously suppressing all dissent, I guess this isn't all that surprising. It's a good reminder that Iran sucks at teh Photoshop, at least.

Of course, the fact that the Iranian government feels compelled to digitally insert fake people into a photograph could be a sure-fire sign that they're losing control of their population. Dictatorships that can't even astroturf a protest with real people are barely worthy of the name.

Update: Yeah, I am pretty bloody slow. What can I say? I'm still trying to wake from my blogging slumber over here...
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DMartyr on 2009-06-18 09:08 #1
*Lol, classic SnappedShot.

Good to have you back, Brian!
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captainfish on 2009-06-18 11:37 #2
*Brian, as always, nice find. Just take it slow and it will all come back to ya.
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Steven C. on 2009-06-19 16:39 #3
*Seems the BBC used a cropped photo of an Ahmedinejad rally and captioned it as Mousavi supporters!

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/iranprop.php?q=WRHARTICLES/iranprop.phpare

I'm not at all surprised. It's been blatantly obvious here in the UK that our media wanted Mousavi into power, showing biased coverage to exaggerate his support in the run-up, and now stirring up a rebellion and whining about democracy and human rights.

I really don't think an election in some middle-eastern Islamic state has a damn thing to do with us. And they seem none too pleased about this outside interference, so it's been a bit of an own goal really.

If I even watched TV any more I'd be sick of hearing about it.
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