Monday, November 16, 2015

Velocity Alert: How a Canadian Sikh was photoshopped to look like a Paris attacker

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THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO GO VIRAL

How a Canadian Sikh was photoshopped to look like a Paris attacker

A doctored image of Veerender Jubbal's selfie went viral on social media and was even reproduced by several European media outlets.

How does Mashable know what's going viral?
Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral.

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