Chinese officials photoshopped into porn

Billboards have appeared in China's Hunan Province asking people to stop blackmailing the government with photoshopped porno images.

Thirty-seven suspects from four different gangs were recently arrested in Shuangfeng County for the crime. Hunan TV reported that they got away with over $7 million CAD after digitally adding hard-working party officials into three-ways and bisexual double penetration scenarios (using my imagination a little here).

As France 24 reports, however, there's some suspicion that the billboard campaign is meant to throw a discrediting shadow on some actual sex scandals—like this one involving dirty old Chongqing party boss Lei Zhengfu, his 18 year-old lady friend, and a video camera.

Counterfeit sexual blackmail has been a tool of statecraft and Godfather movies for some time, of course.

In his 1986 book The Agency, author John Ranelagh describes an attempt by the CIA to smear Indonesian president Sukarno with a stag reel they jokily referred to as Happy Days.

An actor wore a Sukarno mask for the production, which was allegedly shot on a studio owned by Bing Crosby.