Aram Bartholl – Blog

Inspired by Travor Paglens latest pictures of Inteligence HQs released on The Intercept I took the liberty to make some slight photoshop modifications to a picture of the new BND HQ in Berlin. :)) The hoax tweet with the modified picture raised quickly a lot of attention, questions and doubts. Also the fake NYT url i added in the spirit of Fake URL trolling helped to get some fast retweets. :)) “Never hit RT before you ve seen the www!”

• the tweet with all the replies and RTs https://twitter.com/arambartholl/status/434295582698401793
• original picture here http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2013/08/11/germanys-bnd-cooperated-with-nsa-as-merkel-denied-knowledge/
• ‘compare it’ tweet i made https://twitter.com/arambartholl/status/434373494965403649
• blog specialised on hoaxes reporting about the case http://wafflesatnoon.com/germany-swastika-building/
• blog post about swatiskas in architecture floor plans http://weburbanist.com/2013/01/13/crossed-up-9-twisted-swastika-shaped-buildings/

https://twitter.com/arambartholl/status/434295582698401793

https://twitter.com/tomben2512/status/434334766155202560

The picture was doubted by many users. Some of them took the effort to point out the fake. ..

https://twitter.com/Palladin6/status/434414165176750080

…while others users were wondering  about the broken NYT link (which never existed) :))