At a glance
- The "Giant Skeleton Survey" is a creative PS map in which the "archaeologists" have been resized. In addition, many of the so-called "giant skeletons" pictures on the Internet also come from another "archaeological anomaly" photo album, which are also products of PS.
- The "AIAA v. Smithsonian Institution" mentioned in the Tweeted comments is also fabricated and originally originated from a fake news website that is "for informational entertainment only."
Event background
Recently, some users tweeted in English and Chinese Traditional on Twitter at the same time, "More than 20,000 giant fossils have been found in the world, but the mainstream media deliberately concealed it." With a picture of a human skeleton buried in the soil, three suspected archaeologists dressed in fluorescent green crouched next to the bones for investigation. Compared with the three staff members, this pair of human bones looks huge.
Below the tweet, a user @liusangxx replied, "Once, in order to maintain the 'political correctness' that evolution is moving towards the mainstream, the archaeological community destroyed more than a thousand giant skeletons, and published articles were all attacked as fake, just like the elimination of infidels." In 2015, the U.S. AIAA sued the Smithsonian Institution for destroying the giant's skeleton, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the society must disclose all the giant files, so the truth about the giant's skeleton was revealed, and people finally saw the giant skeleton of the Mojave Desert. ”
Mingcha
Where did the image come from?
Download the picture and view the "Properties" to see that the "Source" column of the picture shows that the shooting date is August 26, 2008, and the program name is "Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Windows".
When I opened the image with the Notepad feature, I found that the first line of the code showed "Adobe Photoshop CS5.1", edited on August 14, 2011.
After using the professional image identification website Fotoforensics, it can be confirmed that the three survey staff members in the picture are extremely prominent and have obvious traces of processing.
At this point, it can be determined that the "Giant Skeleton Survey" transmitted on the Internet is the result of artificial editing by photoshop software.
After using the Tineye search tool to reverse the image, it was found that this so-called "giant skeleton survey map" has been circulating on the Internet for a long time, and every time it will be rediscovered and disseminated by netizens. Juxtaposed with them are even some other photographs of giant skulls.
"Wow!!! Are these the giants mentioned in the Bible? ”
Search for the watermark "Worth1000.com" in the lower left corner of the image in the browser search bar, and the page automatically redirects to a website called "DesignCrowd". Publicly available information shows that the site "is perfect for customizing graphics, logos, web and print designs." DesignCrowd is an online creative marketplace that helps startups, businesses and entrepreneurs connect with a global network of designers. Perfect for custom graphics, signage, web and print designs. ”
After a Google search for the keyword "Worth1000", it was found that in 2014, the DesignCrowd website blog published an article announcing that Worth1000 had been merged by DesignCrowd.
The article claims that Worth1000 is a "creative competition platform" founded in 2008 and once had more than 600,000 users. Worth1000 has hosted many Photoshop design competitions, and this gene has been inherited by DesignCrowd.
After qualifying the domain name "designcrowd.com" in google image anti-search, it was found that the online image was the third place work in a design competition, uploaded by a designer named "Whitmath57" on August 14, 2011. The date matches the date shown in the image code and can be confirmed as the source of the image.
The competition is themed "Size matters 4" and the rules require entrants to "change the size of items in an image in an unusual but not impossible way."
The first and second prizes in the image are synchronized swimming in a teacup and an underwater world in a glass bottle, respectively.
After further searching for the keyword "giant skeleton" on the DesignCrowd website, it was found that the DesignCrowd website had published more than one image of the "giant skeleton".
An article published in 2016 titled "Giant Skeletons Seem Too Real To Be A Hoax" mentions that digital photo editing software allows people to add their own creative elements to the timeline of evolution — some of the "extraordinary" human remains on the internet are the product of human editing. This includes works by members of the DesignCrowd (Worth1000.com) community. The article also includes a collection of images called "archaeological anomalies" and more bizarre images of giant skeletons in a style similar to the tweets, including other widely circulated "evidence" of the existence of giants.
"Is it time to rewrite the history books? Works by Yearofthedragon"
"Unearth the unexplainable. Works by Anakinnnn"
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Smithsonian Institution made the Giant Dossier public?
Since the "giants" in the pictures are all thought to have been edited, what is the @liusangxx claim that "the AMERICAN AIAA sued the Smithsonian Institution for secretly hiding the giant's bones" in the Supreme Court?
The Smithonian Institution, founded in 1846, is a prestigious museum, educational, and research complex covering a wide range of topics such as art and design, history, culture, and natural sciences.
A Google search for the keyword "AIAA" shows that the acronym is often used to refer to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, but it is clear that the Society of Astronautics is somewhat suspicious of its involvement in archaeological sites and lawsuits.
A further search of "AIAA archealogy" revealed that as early as December 2014, a website called world news daily report published a story calling AIAA an organization called the American Institution of Alternative Archaelogy. "A U.S. Supreme Court ruling forced the Smithsonian Institution to publish classified documents from the early 1900s proving that the organization was involved in a major historical cover-up, and that "the Smithsonian admitted to destroying thousands of skeletons of early 1900s giants," the report claimed. ”
According to the report, at first, the Smithsonian Institution refused to admit to destroying the giant's skeleton, but AIAA showed a 1.3-meter-long human femur as key evidence. The article also inserts a giant human skeleton allegedly excavated in Ohio, USA, in 2011.
@liusangxx's comments in the Twitter comments are in line with the content of this "World News Daily Report" article.
A further public search found that shortly after the article was published, the U.S. fact-checking website Snopes had falsified the authenticity of the American Alternative Archaeology Society and verified the report: The article claimed that the image above was taken in Ohio in 2011, but the image was first published in 2008 from a Facebook group in Turkey.
Although the Facebook group has now been turned private, we can see by downloading the image and viewing the properties that the photo has also been edited by photoshop software.
In addition, using the file search function of the U.S. Supreme Court website archives, searches for "Smithonian", "AIAA" and "American Institution of Alternative Archeology" respectively showed no results.
So, what kind of media platform is the "World News Daily Report" that published this report?
In fact, a closer look reveals that in addition to the big words "World News Daily Report", there is a line of small characters on the logo: Where facts don't matter. It calls itself "the American Jewish Zionist newspaper in Tel Aviv" and "dedicated to unearthing biblical archaeological news and other mysterious events around the world." ”
In the "Legal Notice" section of the details page, the site's disclaimer reads: This World News Daily Report site information is for informational entertainment only.
In 2015, the British newspaper The Independent listed a series of notorious fake news sites in a report, saying that they "played the word 'news' between the legs, while providing materials that were completely fabricated." World News Daily is also among them. In 2016, Columbia News Review also labeled it a fake news outlet. In 2017, another fact-checking agency, Politifact, called it a "satirical news site."
In summary, the image quoted in the tweet is the winner of the 2014 "Size Matters" contest held by the photo design website Worth1000, and the three archaeologists in the picture have been resized and have obvious traces of editing. In addition, a series of so-called "giant skeletons" photos are from another "archaeological anomaly" photo collection on the Worth1000 website, which is also a product of Photoshop.
The "AIAA v. Smithsonian Institution" mentioned in the commentary is also a fabrication of fake news. The news was first published in December 2014 for The Daily News of the World, and has shortly since been falsified by the fact-checking website Snows. The so-called American Alternative Archaeology Society is a fictional organization, and World News Daily is also a notorious fake news website.
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