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The social experiment that had men in uniform wearing adult diapers sans their pants during the visit of Pope Francis seemed to have fooled at least one publication.
The Straits Times, published in Singapore, ran this piece written by its Philippine correspondent.
The ninth paragraph of the report makes this observation: “Some 27,000 policemen, a few seen wearing adult diapers without their pants on, were on hand to control the crowd.”
Coconuts Manila reported this morning that the photograph, which was first posted on Facebook by a columnist of Adobo Magazine, was staged.
The men in the picture were not real cops nor traffic enforcers.
UPDATE [10:30pm]: After we published this report, The Straits Times edited the online version of its story. There was no editor’s note explaining the changes made.
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