People get fooled by phony pictures on the internet all the time, but what if the person getting fooled, is a high-profile news chief?

Jeff Stein, Newsweek’s national security reporter, shared a picture of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and soon-to-be ousted, White House staffer Sebastian Gorka, holding Nazi books captioned, “No doubt Flynn and Gorka thought this photo was funny when they took it.”

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The problem is, as you can see below, the meme is doctored to change the book covers from something innocuous to something much more dubious.

h/t twitchy