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America tried to ban fake photos in 1912
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Date: July 1st, 2025 5:18 PM Author: Mainlining the $ecret Truth of the Univer$e (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing) https://www.freethink.com/the-digital-frontier/fake-photo-ban-1912?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Concern about deceptively edited photos feels like a very modern anxiety, yet a century ago similar worries were being litigated.
Portrait photography gave rise to an industry of photo retouching — analog “beauty filters” — to flatter subjects in a way portrait painters once did. This trend led to questions about technology distorting our perceptions of beauty, reality, and truth. |