Re:The Fake Snow Leopard: Photomontage Spread Around the World
by shkkmo on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @07:07AM
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I don't see any lieing by the artist and certainly not to you. The images were shared with a total of 3000 people by the artist, I doubt you were one of them.
If anyone engaged in deception here, it is the publications and "journalists" that reused the images without permission and without doing any basic legwork.
- this images are highly misleading, real snow leopards do NOT behave like that
- that makes me (and other) justifiably more suspicious about other claims related to snow leopards, nature protection and people involved
After all, if they are happy to lie in this way - maybe they are also happy to defraud money that got donated? Maybe snow leopards are extinct or impossible to protect anyway?
> Also if all this brings more awareness to safe these animals? win-win.
This also brings more awareness and proof that people lie to you and you should ignore their claims.
That is one of reasons for denialism of smog as real problem, denialism of global warming and so on.
Sacrificing trust and credibility to get less than 800$ (maybe they lied also about this?) is not a good trade.
Also that is a perfect case to show "see, they are probably lying again about this animals - lets build that motorway/factory/resort".
This is a bad strategy even if we do not care about ethics, lying and so on.
PS
I am not a photographer.