The ‘viral’ award-winning photo, handled by a virtuoso in propaganda, who transformed it into fake news.

A young man killed in Duterte’s war was in a picture echoing Michaelangelo’s Pieta (“pity” in Italian), which is one of the most iconic depictions of the Virgin Mary: the Mother cradling the dead body of her son Jesus Christ.

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