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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

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

guys op is really problematic i heard they eat children

This is why archives are extremely important.

Not only does it prove that something isn’t fake, but it also shows a page prior to deletion or editing.

If you aren’t relying on archives for things that matter, you’re doing it wrong. Screenshots are fine, but remember to add in the archive URL to said screenshot. Takes about 10 seconds to do after cropping, so no point not to do it.