Meet The World:

Truth: This was a campaign started by magazine Revista Grande Reportagem which is a Hard Journalism magazine. The idea was to bring across the concept that the magazine offers profound journalism about topics of real importance to the world of today.

This is how they thought of the concept "Meet the World".

They started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags and used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.

The campaign has been running in Portugal since January 2005. There are eight flags that portray very current topics like the division of opinions about the war in Iraq in the United States, the violence against women in Africa, the social inequality in Brazil, the drug trafficking in Columbia, Aids and malaria in Angola, etc.

Hoax: A Norwegian diplomat, Charung Gollar, was asked to present the UN with a graphic presentation showing the main problems in the world in 2004.

He presented a set of 8 pictures entitled “The power of stars” and was applauded for the simplicity of his idea. In spite of having no pretension at all, his work was presented to participate to the Nobel Prize of Political Marketing.

Attached are the 8 pictures presented. Read the legends…

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Angola:

Brazil:

Burkina Faso:

China:

Colombia:

European Union:

Somalia:

USA: