What is "fauxtography"

n. (context chiefly Internet English) mislead presentation of images for propaganda or otherwise ulterior purposes, involving staging, deceptive modification, and/or the addition or omission of significant context.

Dr. Stephen D. Cooper (2007) defines fauxtography as “visual images, especially news photographs, which convey a questionable (or outright false) sense of the events they seem to depict.” It is also mentioned as “a serious criticism of photojournalism products, both the images and the associated text”.