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In 1994, [8] [9] [10] David and Barbara Mikkelson created an urban folklore web site that would become Snopes.com. Snopes was an early online encyclopedia focused on urban legends, which mainly presented search results of user discussions based at first on their contributions to the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban (AFU) where they'd been active. [11]
TruthOrFiction has been referenced by news media and other online websites such as the Florida Times Union [8] which said that: . TruthorFiction.com was founded in 1999 by the late Rich Buhler... who researched and wrote about urban legends for more than 30 years, according to various media reports.
[3] [4] Fry also took photos and 16 mm film of supposed UFOs, but subsequent analysis [5] of the original footage has provided evidence both the film and photographs were a hoax. Later, Fry claimed to have received a doctorate ; the "degree" was from a mail-order company in London , UK, called Saint Andrew College and was a "Doctorate of Cosmism ".
Black Knight is a jumble of completely unrelated stories; reports of unusual science observations, authors promoting fringe ideas, classified spy satellites and people over-interpreting photos. These ingredients have been chopped up, stirred together and stewed on the internet to one rambling and inconsistent dollop of myth. [4]
Truth claim, in photography, is a term Tom Gunning uses to describe the prevalent belief traditional photographs accurately depict reality. He states that the truth claim relies on both the indexicality and visual accuracy of photographs.
The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v.John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. [1]
Comprobado (hosted by Maldita.es). [ 138 ] Miniver.org: the first fact-checking web in Spain, launched in 2017, with the purpose of debunking fake news. Accredited by Google as fact-checking organization. [ 139 ] Newtral: Spanish fact-checking organization founded by journalist Ana Pastor from LaSexta.
Depending on the application and intent, some photograph manipulations are considered an art form because they involve creation of unique images and in some instances, signature expressions of art by photographic artists. For example, Ansel Adams used darkroom exposure techniques to darken and lighten photographs.