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It's incontrovertible that the tweet sent out by Binyamin Appelbaum was fake news.

Why? Because it is visually obvious, by reviewing the Gigapixel photo of the inauguration crowd, that Appelbaum's 2-17 photo was clearly taken at an earlier time than the actual moment of President Trump's inauguration.

So that's my first comment.

Now, my question is: what photos did CNN use in their supposed comparison of crowd sizes? If they were working from the Appelbaum photos I just cited, then they were clearly engaging in "fake news".

If CNN used some other photos, then I'd like to see what they did use.

One thing is certain: the Gigapixel photo clearly shows a larger crowd present on the National mall than is shown in the Appelbaum photo.

Now, "photoguy" was talking about "meta data" saying that the time was 12:01 PM, regarding a certain photo of the national mall. What photo is he referring to?

During the course of several dozen posts on the thread, "photoguy" was asked repeatedly to simply post links the actual photos that he was ostensibly comparing, and I don't recall him even responding to that request, even textually, between the time of his original posting and the time of his zot, which was a substantial period of time.

Was "photoguy" simply too engrossed in other aspects of the ongoing back-and-forth, and he didn't have a chance to present his evidence, or was he being deliberately evasive?

Can anyone definitively state exactly what photos CNN was using for their projections on crowd size?

There are two issues: 1) What was the crowd size in 2017 vs. 2009? and 2) What photo evidence did CNN present in order to frame their reporting regarding the crowd size?

Question #2 is actually much more important than question #1, because if CNN used the Appelbaum photos or anything of that ilk as "evidence", then they were clearly engaging in abject propaganda, and they would deserve to be excoriated for doing so, regardless of whether President Trump's crowd was actually bigger or not...