Pictures can be doctored, but in general you can tell when one is real if you are there, from who posted it, how quickly it tallies with verbal reports, and so on.
While the FBI and other government tallies have long been criticized for underreporting, an admission of the problem at the top levels of US government is swiftly emerging.
The first-ever attempt by US record-keepers to estimate the number of uncounted "law enforcement homicides" exposed previous official tallies as capturing less than half of the real picture.
His suggestion tallies, rather ironically, with a comment by evil plantation owner Calvin Candie, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained, who wonders out loud why the oppressed blacks don't simply "rise up and kill the whites".
Which is filled, to my horror, by the embarrassingly audible tsk-tsk-tsk of my iPod earphones, which are still on from my ride over here - and the sound of my conscience clanging as my sin score-sheet tallies up yet another brazen lie... OK, I admit it.
But Amnesty's report tallies with accounts of the raid given to the Guardian byChibok residents.
But the published FBI tallies cover even fewer of the total deaths, closer to 41%, in part because the FBI publishes no data from Florida.
Romney's percentage of the vote as opposed to the proportion won by the conservative alternatives (by now, just Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum) tallies quite closely with the percentage of voters in a state's exit polls who say they are born-again Christian or evangelical.
