From The Telegraph:The doctoring of photos, once considered the reserve of tyrants and UFO nuts, is becoming increasingly widespread.
With photo-editing software becoming ever more sophisticated, and the internet allowing instant distribution, it has never been easier to create and spread hoax images.
Below we present 20 of the most striking, interesting and controversial fake photos, most of them produced in the last five years.
Some were created to amuse, some to mislead, while others were an attempt to rewrite history.
And although the credulity of the internet has been blamed for allowing hoax photos to flourish, several of the fakes below were actually uncovered by bloggers after being distributed by mainstream media outlets.
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1) Shark lunges at helicopter
2) World Trade Center tourist
3) Iranian missile test
4) Ann Widdecombe's mixed messages
5) Chairman Mao airbrushes out his former friends
6) Snowball the monster cat
7) Smoke over Beirut
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8) Antelopes and trains in harmony
9) Tsunami captured from tower block
10) Bush reading upside down
11) Shark sneaks up on scuba divers
12) John Kerry with Jane Fonda
13) Giant skeletons discovered in India
14) Benito Mussolini, the fearless horseman
15) Karl Rove's 'secret file'
16) James Purnell doctored at hospital
17) Soldier doll held hostage in Iraq
18) Fidel Castro made to look like Hitler
19) Oil rig, tornado and lightning strike
20) Cottingley Fairies
