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that a Pentagon spokesperson said there had been no explosion. Those tweets were viewed hundreds of thousands of times less than its initial false report.Some of the accounts that tweeted about the fake event had blue “verified” checkmarks, while legitimate organizations that shared the truth did not. The official account for the, which polices the Pentagon, doesn’t pay for a blue checkmark and Twitter has not given it a gray checkmark indicating it’s a verified institution.
Next, he checked his mobile data terminal — essentially a laptop that lists every active 911 incident in Arlington — and found no sign of anything going on near the Pentagon.That’s when he finally pulled up social media himself, expecting to see some eyewitness accounts on Twitter. But again, there was nothing. All he saw was the doctored photo of the explosion.
Sam Gregory, the executive director of the human rights organization Witness, whose group has studied fake images and disinformation, said the Pentagon explosion image tweeted Monday carries multiple hallmarks of a fake, including visual glitches and an inaccurate view of the Pentagon. The challenge with such fakes, Gregory said, is the speed with which they can blast across the internet.
"The way people are exposed to these shallow fakes, it doesn’t require something to look exactly like something else for it to get attention," he said. “People will readily take and share things that don’t look exactly right but feel right.”
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