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Digital imaging makes fakes easier to make, but maybe also easier to spot. News@nature.com talks to mathematician Hany Farid about tracking down falsified photos for science journals and the FBI.

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Jones, N. Picture imperfect. Nature (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/news070219-2

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