Alleged voting records published online by Venezuela's far-right opposition. Photo: El Universal.
In the recent edition of his program Cable a Tierra broadcast on Friday, August 9, Venezuelan Minister for Communication and Information Freddy Ñáñez reported that of the supposed voting records the far-right published on its fraudulent website, 83% of them were altered using editing software.
This revelation comes after computer experts analysed the images uploaded to the portal. “It is interesting because when you talk to computer experts, they tell you each image can be identified with its identity card. That is, each document you scan generates an image that is what we see on the screen, but that image has metadata, and that metadata is the digital fingerprint of that image,” Ñáñez stated.
According to Ñáñez, the experts explained what the metadata says, in this case, “what is the brand of the equipment that scanned the document, the serial number of the equipment, and it says the time and day that the document was copied.”
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“When you check the metadata of an image, you can say that the image is a faithful copy of the original. If you check each of the images that are there and the metadata does not appear or is erased, it is because the image has been edited,” Minister Ñáñez explained.
He also stated that there is no metadata in the document, “meaning that this image has been altered, its color, its content because elements such as numbers and signatures were added or removed. In any case, when you see that an image does not have metadata, that image cannot be considered a faithful copy of the original.”
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“Now we are a little less than 15 days past the [electoral] events, and we could begin to show the analyses that some computer scientists are starting to make on these images that they sold us as records. Of the 9,472 images that they first uploaded to this website, which represent 30% of the records they claim to have, 83% were shown not to have metadata when subjected to expert analysis. That is to say that they went through editing software, that 83% of these images of records are not a faithful copy of the original,” Ñáñez pointed out.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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