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A Nazi magazine regularly published manipulated photos and misinformation, long before the age of AI

  • Written by Daniel H. Magilow, Professor of German, University of Tennessee
imageThis spread reproduces images that appeared in the first issue of the llustrierter Beobachter, a Nazi publication, in July 1926, including one cropped image that falsely gives the impression that a Nazi event was well attended.Public domain

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