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Comment by crazygringo

3 hours ago

Are you trying to suggest that indicated it was fraudulent? That has very much been debunked -- it's just an artifact of OCR and compression, something that many scanners do automatically [1].

You can still open it with Illustrator if you want to see: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/rss...

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/birth-certificate/

Yeah, the idea that proves it's fraudulent has been debunked, but the alternative hasn't been proven, either. Nobody has named the specific OCR software that does this destructive replacement. It's a case of "well, there's an alterastive theory, and that's good enough" debunking.