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Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by tomjakubowski on Thursday December 06, 2018 @08:46AM (#18617969)
No, those pictures of brutal Spanish police action to block people from casting ballots were fake. There are plenty of real ones. As a casual but interested observer, I personally don't remember seeing any of those fake photos shared.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/10/photos-from-catalo...

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Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by ceejayoz on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:22AM (#18618230)
The fake photos were self-evidently shared enough to receive some media coverage, and the article cites retweet counts. I'm not clear on the relevance of you not having personally spotted these specific ones.

I took a look at the Atlantic link you included, and I'm not seeing any photos of bloodied protesters like the fake ones had. I don't doubt that with rubber bullets and batons flying there were some injuries, but the "fake" photos still aren't accurate depictions of them if they're from previous incidents.

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