What happens these days when a photographer’s photo inadvertently shoulder-surfs your phone screen? If you’re a politician and the content vaguely resembles porn, internet sleuths are on the case. In one case this week, depending on your point of view, the results were a disappointment or a relief.
It all started with a now-deleted Tweet, as Sam Haysom reports:
No comment. pic.twitter.com/aIxS0wEg6a
— Andy (@RedLeftAndy) June 13, 2017
In yet more evidence that crowdsourcing works, it took a few hundred retweets and a few hours for the answer to emerge:
How did you find that so quickly, just out of interest?
— Sam Haysom (@samhaysom) June 13, 2017
Turns out is was possible FBI snitch Gordon Parks! Checkmate, politician!
• Blurry, fleshy-looking pic on politician’s phone sparks Twitter search (Mashable)