Image-forensic expert Hany Farid confirmed it's a fake.
@donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out"
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White House shares doctored image portraying arrested church protester in tears
The photo of an attorney arrested after a Minnesota church protest was edited to make it look like she was crying. The White House’s X post had been seen roughly 2.5 million times by Thursday afternoo...
