This is just odd. It's a Reuters photo of a section of Beirut that was recently bombed by the IDF. Look at the smoke, particularly in the upper left corner.
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Does smoke, well, "repeat" like that in real life? Or is this photo altered, with more smoke added in? And if so, why? Was the original just not "smoky" enough for Reuters? As I said, odd.
UPDATE: Yup, it's doctored. This brilliant chappy isolated a duplicated element (visible in the bottom left of the pic above), and illustrates it with an animated GIF. Apparently this is a fairly simple thing to do in Photoshop--and this isn't a very good job of it, either...
UPDATE: Reuters confesses: Reuters admits altering Beirut photo.
FINAL UPDATE: The image that was at the top of this post has been pulled from the Reuters site, along with the 300+ photos taken by that same photographer. Apparently this isn't the only suspicious photo he provided to the news agency...
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