In the mood for lies


THERE’S a photograph on the Internet that is the perfect tool if you want to fool the public. It shows a brown box containing thousands of ringgit – some say half a million ringgit. And it is perfect when you want to mix truth with lies.

Here’s how to do it. Take a photograph of something that actually happened, say, a collision between a luxury 4WD vehicle and a lorry.

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