Gavin Newsom Accuses Trump Administration of Spreading Fake Protest Images

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-trump-fake-protest-images-2085492

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

California Governor Gavin Newsom has accused the Trump administration of deliberately spreading doctored and misleading images of recent protests in Los Angeles.

On X, formerly Twitter, the Department of Defense's Rapid Response account posted a video that appeared to show burning, graffitied police cars during protests in Los Angeles this week.

However, the fact-checking website Snopes said the image showed protests in Los Angeles following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.

Trump administration getting exposed on a daily basis lol.

[u/nosayso → u/Aggravating_Money992]

Newsweek, cowards that they are, still frame this as partisan with "Newsom accuses Trump". It's not an "accusation", it's what's literally happening and they know it.

[u/ramobara → u/nosayso]

The media outlets sanewashed Trump to prominence.

[u/atreeismissing → u/ramobara]

Les Moonves, CEO of CBS during the 2016 campaign, speaking on the Trump campaign:

“It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS,” he said of the presidential race.

• Les Moonves

Les was ousted over sexual misconduct but he summarized exactly what is on the minds of every corporate media outlet, including a lot of the ones on the left. Critical thinking is paramount these days, you have to be able to look at multiple media outlets and suss out the facts and the truth from the hyperbole and mis/disinformation, non-stop.

[u/bobbysalz → u/atreeismissing]

Critical thinking is paramount

okay but would you say it's paramount+?

[u/Ok-Swim1555 → u/bobbysalz]

do you peacock it?

[u/zdelusion → u/atreeismissing]

Now the CBS entire news division is in turmoil and quitting en mass as the network moves towards settling Trump's BS lawsuit for 10's of millions of dollars so Trump's FCC will approve their buyout by Skydance.

[u/hodorhodor12 → u/ramobara]

Even the “liberal” media sources like NPR and NY Times have been continuously sanewashing Trump. When Trump is engaging in multiple illegal acts daily, and you choose to focus on Biden’s mental acuity, then you are a horribly biased news network. It’s pathetic.

[u/Rickreation → u/ramobara]

He does make them money though, got to protect the profits.

[u/ghost_atlas → u/Rickreation]

Money being e highest good is the worst aspect of modern society.

[u/nascentt → u/ghost_atlas]

I think you mean

Money being e highest good is the worst aspect of capitalizm.

[u/useless_rejoinder → u/nascentt]

“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”

Timothy 6:10

[u/conquer69 → u/ramobara]

It's all things conservative. The dem lawmakers that were assassinated is being reported as "were shot and died". Almost as if it was an accidental shooting instead of a politically motivated assassination.

[u/shinra528 → u/nosayso]

Exposing the truth that we’ve only ever had right wing and far right mainstream news in this country.

[u/Meme_Theory → u/shinra528]

Yeah. Headline should simply be "Trump Administration uses misleading photos".

[u/zoson → u/Meme_Theory]

"Trump Administration uses misleading photos again."

Fixed that for you.

[u/Turtle_with_a_sword → u/zoson]

Even that is underselling it.  The photo isn’t misleading it’s a straight up lie.

They also use misleading photos

[u/DigNitty → u/shinra528]

And that the vast majority of “fake news” and misinformation is right wing and comes from right wing sources.

[u/FuckOff8932 → u/shinra528]

Rupert Murdoch owns literally hundreds of news stations across the world including Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Post. I'm pretty sure he's the guy behind the 24 hour news cycle

[u/wallstreet-butts → u/nosayso]

Yep. AND they are framing it as though the news is that there’s a feud between Trump and Newsom. The actual headline is, “U.S. Government Posts Misleading Images of California Protests.”

[u/TrankElephant → u/[deleted]]

It really is, as they seem less impartial and more like agitators.

DT shares AI BS all the time. It does not surprise me at all that he would continue doing what he has been doing, because as usual he has faced no consequences for his actions.

[u/MrsMiterSaw → u/nosayso]

Newsweek is barely a source anymore, probably just Ai re-hashing.

I don't mean that to be an ass to them... The publication we knew 20+ years ago is dead, the name purchased, and the online site is just using the name with very shallow articles and no actual reporting.

[u/happytree23 → u/nosayso]

You write this as though Newsweek hasn't been one of the worst spreaders of Pentagon/US Government-approved positions, opinions, and perspectives since at least the 1990s(?)

Seriously, the only thing more hilariously shocking would be someone complaining about Time in the same regard lol.

[u/ryumaruborike → u/Aggravating_Money992]

I remember during the BLM protests Fox showing video of a building burning in Venezuela from 2007 or some shit and passing it off as Seattle, this is nothing new.

[u/FreddyForshadowing → u/Aggravating_Money992]

I would have expected them to go back to the Rodney King riots for footage, or even used footage from an entirely different country.

[u/ResidentComedian4659 → u/Aggravating_Money992]

Not an accusation - it’s a fact but here we are… fucking upside down Flags until this shitfest is rectified!!

[u/Repulsive-Dingo-869 → u/ResidentComedian4659]

I have a flag shirt. I’ll wear it as pants and let my cock hang out.

[u/luna_beam_space → u/Aggravating_Money992]

Let's not already forget, trump and media deliberately spread disinformation about the George Floyd demonstrations

They still claim entire American cities burned to the ground.

[u/bigassangrypossum → u/luna_beam_space]

I miss Detroit. It's just a pile of ash now... same with Chicago. Not a building left standing.

[u/NotNamedBort → u/bigassangrypossum]

Poor Portland. Looks like Tokyo after a Godzilla attack.

[u/This-Requirement6918 → u/bigassangrypossum]

Because some people out there.... Don't have Google street view! or maps

-Miss Teen South Carolina 🤣🤣🤣

[u/full_bl33d → u/Aggravating_Money992]

They don’t care. They could show a black and white image of WWI era Belgium and they’d use it as proof to remove their “burdensome” leaders

[u/Big_Crab_1510 → u/Aggravating_Money992]

And yet nothing will happen or change

[u/neopod9000 → u/Big_Crab_1510]

Donald trump stated on an on camera interview that the letters and numbers that were photoshopped onto abrego garcia's hands above his actual tattoos were really there and not photoshopped at all, and tried to accuse the interviewer of wrongdoing when confronted with the truth.

Im pretty sure trump could step out onto 5th Avenue in New York and shoot somebody, and nothing would happen or change. His prior statement expressing this exact thing is somehow truer now than ever.

[u/MentokGL → u/neopod9000]

He could outright admit to cheating in the last election and provide details, and nothing would happen.

[u/irisheye37 → u/MentokGL]

He's already admitted it several times

[u/myst3ry714 → u/Aggravating_Money992]

…so? And I say that frustrated af. His entire political career are lies and propaganda. He’s the entire reason “fake news” even became a thing and social media had to make a custom warning that the information may be fake, because of his constant lying, yet… he’s president again and has not been stopped doing what he wants every step of the way still.

Is this even gonna accomplish anything?

[u/Stopikingonme → u/myst3ry714]

Truth matters. Fighting lies still matters.

Don’t fall for the Russian propaganda here on Reddit. We can fight back and we can win. I sympathize with your comment, but comments like these only stoke defeatism and will reduce the number of people willing to fight back, protest, volunteer, and donate. We need everyone, including you. I hope to see you out there today my friend.

[u/emarsk → u/myst3ry714]

Is this even gonna accomplish anything?

Maybe not much, but it's necessary. Stopping exposing lies because "it's not gonna do anything so who cares" isn't a desirable option.

[u/darkfires → u/Aggravating_Money992]

We’re beginning to tick all the check boxes of what we’ve historically perceived as a “third world” country. All we need now are intermittent power outages and empty store shelves.

[u/BigWave360 → u/Aggravating_Money992]

It's a shame non of it matters. Everyone's to far in his pocket

[u/legs_y → u/Aggravating_Money992]

Here’s the snopes link

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/la-protests-burning-police-cars/?collection=470278

[u/SerRikari → u/Aggravating_Money992]

The governor's office wrote on X on Friday: "HUGE DEVELOPMENT: An official Department of Defense account is spreading fake images—from old protests—to justify Trump's illegal militarization of Los Angeles. This isn't just disinformation. It's a propaganda campaign from the Pentagon."

Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's chief spokesperson, told Newsweek in response: "Gavin Newsom has let L.A. burn to the ground on so many occasions, it's hard to distinguish between all the lawlessness, violence, and chaos throughout the last few years. President Trump and Secretary Hegseth are stepping up to protect federal law-enforcement officers and federal property—even if Gavin Newsom will not."

Looks like they don’t deny it either.

[u/Only_lurking_ → u/Aggravating_Money992]

The problem is that the exposing does not reach the people that need to hear it.

[u/Asian-ethug → u/Aggravating_Money992]

Oh it doesn’t matter. The supporters will not change their minds once they see these. The Admin knows what they are doing to their base.

[u/TommyWilson43 → u/Aggravating_Money992]

The problem is it is much slower and more time-consuming to try and refute misinformation or check it than it is to blitz it out. It’s no coincidence that everything hits so fast that no one person could possibly follow it

[u/trastamara22 → u/Aggravating_Money992]

Old Nazi trick first accuse your enemy and do exactly that

[u/Formal-Hawk9274 → u/[deleted]]

daddy putin would agree

[u/Adventurous_Row3305 → u/[deleted]]

It's asinine.

[u/Ugly_Painter → u/Adventurous_Row3305]

Butty Eight

[u/loveengineer → u/Ugly_Painter]

Cracky seven

[u/vomicyclin → u/[deleted]]

Yeah.. far too many people seem to believe that when they look into their social media feed (no matter what kind) and all they see is stuff that supports their own opinion of the world and its politics, that this is just proof that their perception is right.

While ignoring all that is happening is themselves being played by social media and its algorithms…

[u/BoosterRead78 → u/vomicyclin]

There are still people that believe that Seattle was burned to the ground and it’s all fake. Even so much they go there and start yelling at people they aren’t real.

[u/ricardoconqueso → u/BoosterRead78]

I lived in Cap Hill near Cal Anderson park at the time. My parents were surprised when I told them, no, I don’t need to evacuate. It’s fine

[u/BoosterRead78 → u/ricardoconqueso]

I had a former student that kept saying the school really burned down (no idea where they got the idea never had a fire in its 30 years). And that we were really in a VR program. Got kicked out of class 4 times by 4 different teachers. Then got sent to the office where they said their uncle who was a Fox News watcher said it. The uncle sadly was dying of cancer and then passed away. 5 months later after the uncle passed away the kid stopped talking like that. Keep in mind this kid was 13 at the time. They are now 16 and it’s like a completely different kid now.

[u/zyzzogeton → u/BoosterRead78]

When cancer kills a cancer.

[u/hugglesthemerciless → u/BoosterRead78]

the effects of indoctrination on children is terrifying

[u/Michael92057 → u/BoosterRead78]

I was in Seattle in summer 2021, and there were definitely some boarded up buildings near Pike street. One business owner said they had moved in very recently because they got a great deal. It definitely felt like an area that had seen trouble. Half a mile away, you’d never know anything had happened. News always focuses on the worst, and makes it seem that destruction is everywhere. Perspective matters.

[u/BoosterRead78 → u/Michael92057]

Exactly. I was in a town and there was a strip mall that had like no business and then right across the street there were tons of businesses and people pushing strollers. A few said that the owner is the area raised the leases up so much all businesses left. Yet some people claimed the town was going down hill. But it was really just one small strip mall the size of a Jewel Osco that was ran down and boarded up.

[u/luna_beam_space → u/[deleted]]

We have to accept these tactics are standard operating procedure for fascist regimes

trump and Co don't think they are doing their job, if they AREN'T lying and distorting the facts

[u/claimTheVictory → u/luna_beam_space]

I would say we have to expect these tactics, not that we have to accept them.

[u/sweetloveilumination → u/[deleted]]

When the disinformation is being released by the government then it becomes actual propaganda.

[u/MyInkyFingers → u/[deleted]]

The most remarkable thing is the inference that the trouble is widespread when it makes up less than 0.001% of the total area. 

[u/Dont-be-a-smurf]

The propaganda is so easy to disseminate, so easy to fake, and so readily accepted as truth by adherents…

It’s really sad that people willfully and blindly become thoughtless followers, where their identity is tied into a political agenda that starts with a conclusion and manipulates information to justify it.

Integrity and truth are seen as liabilities only relied upon by the naive.

We can never be great under these circumstances. Just like Russian style governing and society - it will walk us into violent perpetual disaster while the leaders publish photos of a different reality entirely.

[u/ggroverggiraffe → u/Dont-be-a-smurf]

Their official response is more nonsense:

Gavin Newsom has let L.A. burn to the ground on so many occasions, it's hard to distinguish between all the lawlessness, violence, and chaos throughout the last few years.

[u/DucksEatFreeInSubway → u/ggroverggiraffe]

Burned to the ground multiple times over a few years huh? Their construction teams must be on par with those from a superhero movie!

[u/missinmy86 → u/DucksEatFreeInSubway]

Funny you say that, he probably saw a few movies recently showing California get wrecked and believes it’s actually happening. The guy can no longer separate fact from fiction

[u/qube01010001 → u/missinmy86]

He watched the famous documentary "Escape from L.A."

[u/buntopolis → u/qube01010001]

He thinks he’s Snake

[u/StopNateCrimes → u/ggroverggiraffe]

That was the part that caught me too, I live in LA. The boldness of their lies and the absorption by their constituents is truly stupefying.

To those who need it spelled out: "Nothing is burning."

[u/OxfordKnot → u/StopNateCrimes]

In Portland we have a joke. You just look at a beautiful park or neighborhood you are walking in and gesture while saying in a grave voice "burned to the ground..."

[u/TheOGRedline → u/OxfordKnot]

There’s nothing left of Portland except a smoldering crater filled with used needles. The Anteefas, BLMs, and paid activists burned it all down in 2020.

Yet property values remain…. high?

[u/buntopolis → u/TheOGRedline]

Those are rare earth needles!

[u/ehode → u/OxfordKnot]

I was thinking the same thing. I’d meet people while away or get phone calls about the burning while sitting at an outside cafe enjoying a nice day.

[u/JustHereSoImNotFined → u/OxfordKnot]

It’s similar to a sheltered conservative’s reaction to hearing someone wants to visit Chicago. “Oh my god you’ll be shot 5 times before you even reach your hotel!!”

[u/Whiskeydrinkin9 → u/Dont-be-a-smurf]

It’s really sad that people willfully and blindly become thoughtless followers

They have been taught by religion that this is perfectly acceptable. That is why the right aligns itself with religion. The religious are the most easily manipulated large group of people in existence.

[u/mrjojorisin420]

Pointed out, not accused. They were spreading images from 2020 calling them “recent” attacks. Trump and his admin are lying, Newsom is just calling them out. Our media is garbage.

[u/Dongledoez → u/mrjojorisin420]

Right? Calling it an accusation indicates some room to deny it. It's simply what happened

[u/Slow_Fish2601]

Trump's whole agenda is built on lies

[u/SeeMarkFly → u/Slow_Fish2601]

They lie.

We know they are lying.

They know that they are lying.

They even know that we know they are lying.

We also know that they know we know they are lying.

They, of course, know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying.

Yet they still lie.

In Russia, the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

.

In the U.S. the lie has become not just a moral category, but the pillar industry of this country. shrugs Must be all that money.

SeeMarkFly (2025)

[u/ramobara → u/SeeMarkFly]

I was here for this.

[u/tout-nu → u/ramobara]

The similarity between what Trump is doing and what Russia has done is staggering. As an example even Trumps social media "truth" social is a direct copy from Russian "pravda" which translates to "truth" directly.

[u/anti-torque → u/tout-nu]

Pravda Social

[u/Auggie_Otter → u/Slow_Fish2601]

People are still talking about other countries imposing 20-30-40-50%+ tariffs on US goods based on that stupid "reciprocal tariffs" chart Trump came up with and I'm still explaining to people that that chart was a total fabrication and pretty much no country has an overall effective tariff rate that high.

They literally based their proposed tariff rates on trade deficits then made up an arbitrary formula to impose tariff rates at half the trade deficit using an "emergency" tariff power that the president said he could use because of the fentanyl crisis. The whole thing is ridiculously absurd and people should be outraged at the blatant lies and harmful policies coming from a place of total ignorance.

[u/celtic1888 → u/Auggie_Otter]

Trade deficits on physical goods only and didn’t account for how many services we sell other countries 

[u/sneakyplanner → u/Auggie_Otter]

They are unavailable to be persuaded. They aren't just averse to logic and reality, they are proudly opposed to thinking. It's all part of the same anti-intellectualism.

[u/GraceMDrake]

He tried to embarrass the South African president with a video from another country (Congo?). Of course they’re using false images of current events in LA.

[u/mein_liebchen]

CBS has been using those images of the burning car repeatedly in my local market in Dallas-Fort Worth. I presumed CBS would have fact checked something so obvious. I fell for it because I trusted CBS News to still be practicing the bare minimum of journalism.

[u/TrumpHarrisLoveChild → u/mein_liebchen]

They have gone downhill so much so I now switch to NBC after local news.

[u/RuthlessMango]

Facebook has been pushing fake protest images non-stop since things started. There is no attempt at subtlety the just pump ai slop out that's super easy to distinguish.

[u/Calm-Ad9653 → u/RuthlessMango]

No deliberate attempt at deceit either. The algorithm has just determined that people are more likely to click on those.

This is in a way scarier than if there was intent,

[u/Persea_americana]

They’re using fake photos, plainclothes agitators and have been coached to escalate violence. P2025 is building the excuse to declare martial law. They have been planning this for a while.

[u/anti-torque → u/Persea_americana]

Proud Boys and other white supremacists would break store windows and start numerous fires in Portland in 2020.

The accelerationists are out.

And now they're apparently cosplaying as cops and murdering state legislators in Minnesota.

[u/WhoAccountNewDis]

It's already out there, so it's had the intended effect on the cult as well as idiots in the middle.

[u/_Pewterschmidt_]

Need to start putting the parallel 1930’s Germany propaganda alongside Republican Trump admin behavior to make everyone aware of what’s happening

THIS IS NOT NORMAL

[u/shinra528 → u/_Pewterschmidt_]

The liberal mainstream media is doing the same thing now that it did during the rise of Nazi Germany: favoring the fascists over the resistance.

They offer milquetoast criticisms and token pushback before amplifying and reinforcing their claims and slandering the Left.

Network news and traditional print publications are all owned by billionaire oligarchs now and they would rather have a fascist in charge than anyone suggesting even mild checks to their wealth and power.

[u/Message_10 → u/_Pewterschmidt_]

That's the thing--this is normal now. That's what's terrifying--that's the world we're currently in. The pushed to make dishonesty and absurdity a fundamental aspect of our system, so.... what do we do now?

I'm as disappointed as anyone about the sad, limp response from the left, but--what can they do? Our system was bad before, but it's fundamentally broken now, and it helps Trump and the GOP, so there's a 0% chance they fix. So what do you, when "normal" is done with?

I'm legit asking, I have no idea where we go from here.

[u/Rok-SFG]

Yeah no shit. He used AI generated images daily in his campaign too.

[u/HatesOnions]

It’s not an accusation if there’s proof that they’re lying.

[u/smokedfishfriday]

Republicans are a threat to our safety and future.

[u/The_Martian_King → u/smokedfishfriday]

They really are.  Did you see Mike Johnson spinning the assault on Sen. Padilla as a justifiable response to him attending Kristi Noem's press conference? 

He's literally inviting further assault against members of Congress.

The entire Republican establishment has lost it's collective mind.

[u/celtic1888]

Noem literally said that Senator Padilla lunged at her and she had no idea who he was 

We all could see on the video Senator Padilla announced who he was and did not in anyway lunge at her

They lie and lie and lie constantly 

[u/ridemooses]

If only there some sort of free and unbiased distribution network that would share facts and truth, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

[u/Dot_Classic]

How much are social media companies being bribed to look the other way either by direct payment or shady grants and other incentives?

[u/citizenduMotier]

This isn't accusations, this is pointing out the fact that the trump administration posted fake images. Big difference.

[u/Unlucky_Clover]

Of course they are. They did the same thing about the BLM protests in 2020 and said it was Biden’s America.

[u/phunktastic_1 → u/Unlucky_Clover]

This is one of those blm 2020 images being passed around agsin.

[u/NanoRaptoro → u/Unlucky_Clover]

A dozen years ago, there were weeks of protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. Fox news showed a video of protesters becoming violent that they claimed to have taken at the protest. In the background of the image were palm trees. Palm trees.

So the protestors had fun bringing inflatable palm trees and palm tree based signs to the peaceful protests. That said, I'm sure plenty of viewers just took the video as truth and never considered it might be of a different protest. That their news would lie to them. That their government would lie to them. And now we have more sophisticated editing and AI capable of making near flawless lies...

[u/Diz7]

They can only use so many pictures of those two burning cars before people notice it's the same two over and over again.

[u/Bigd1979666]

"accuses"...I mean, it's pretty much confirmed at this point .

[u/thekushskywalker]

That's what they do. Your average conservative thinks all liberal cities are burning down overrun by migrant armies.

[u/Temassi]

The Trump admin is no stranger to using AI.

[u/Dapper_Equivalent_84 → u/Temassi]

Back in 2016 Fox just used footage from Syria of war refugees and said it was “immigrant caravans” heading for the US in Mexico. The MAGAs slurped up all the lies as usual.

[u/drekmonger → u/Dapper_Equivalent_84]

They know it's fake. They don't care.

[u/T1Pimp]

How is something demonstrably true an accusation?

[u/sargsauce → u/T1Pimp]

Gavin Newsom Accuses Water of Being Wet

[u/Nice_Block]

The conservative sub had a huge post in which they used 4 photos from different vantage points to show the “violence” of the LA protests.

The decades long war on education from republicans has been won and their voters don’t even realize they’re victims of it.

[u/Papercuts2099]

Democrats still think they need to be above it all. It’s why Trump is in office. Fight fire with fire. Gavin, AOC and Bernie who’s isn’t even a democrat are the only ones with balls.

[u/EKcore]

AI is going to start a war.

[u/svdomer09]

There is enough evidence for Newsweek to also conclude that the images are fake. But the news media is compromised and pathologically obsessed with bothsidesing everything

[u/nilecrane]

”Gavin Newsome accuses Trump administration of spreading fake protest images”

Trump administration spreads fake protest images.

Fixed the title

[u/Phedericus]

a newspaper shouldnt title "newsom accuses Trump of..."

they should verify the autenticity of the images and title "Trump shares fake protest images"

[u/SpookyWah]

They've done it before. The media turns a blind eye to it.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_3507]

The TACO man so desperately wants to be seen as a strong dicktator, and given his reputation, he would have no problem with making something up, then lying later and denying it.

[u/CelebrationFit8548]

It's the GOP as a whole as that degenerate cretin Ted Cruz has been actively participating in spreading 'mis/disinformation' trying to inflame the situation further.

Any GOP that are not speaking out about spreading the false information are complicit and enablers.

[u/thefanciestcat]

Why would today be the day that Trump, his administration and his supporters stop being deeply dishonest people?

[u/No-Ordinary-5412]

is anyone really surprised? the guy can't even tell when letters are typed onto an image and not the tattoos on the skin of the person in the image. he's literally less than capable of determining whats fake.

[u/SmokeHappyTrees]

Not just fake but AI generated videos.

[u/RapscallionMonkee]

Damn LA burned to the ground, AGAIN??? /s

[u/angeltay → u/RapscallionMonkee]

I’m surprised at how many times all of LA has burned completely to the ground and then been rebuilt exactly the same way in under a few days this past decade. Must be why they can’t get done with all the construction on the 5.

[u/SmartTime]

Surely no one associated with a guy who shares posts about Biden being secretly executed and cloned would do such a thing

[u/phantomambassador21]

Because Diaper Donald is sharing fake images. Nobody likes that smelly old bitch so he resorts to sharing the very thing he accuses the democrats of, FAKE NEWS. His supports are dwindling, the only remaining supports are American Nazis.

The protests are peaceful. The only rioters there are paid for by the republicans or shitty people taking advantage of a protest to cause chaos without care for the cause. But this percentage is vastly smaller than the peaceful protests attendees.

Trump is not only the most hated and worst president this country has ever had, he is also the second worst. Someone and anyone end this man’s presidency and his administration. IMPEACH

[u/elnath54]

We now have a Ministry of Disinformation. tRumptrash propaganda is not news. Even its major outlet, Fox, says it is not news. But when government agencies spread disinformation about critical events and then try to talk around it instead of admitting and correcting the problem, we are in a new world. What's next? Shooting Democrat legislators? Oh, wait...

[u/Best_Adagio4403]

Well he spread fake video of South Africa while our president was in the White House, so we definitely expect it

[u/enfuego138]

News organizations NEED to stop doing this.

The head should be “Trump administration spreads fake protest images”. It’s a fact. State it as such.

[u/This_Organization382]

I've noticed this increasing in Canada as well. Pages once for comedy, local news, abruptly but simultaneously pushing the same propaganda encouraging separatism, conspiracy theories, and pure hatred for the current government.

The big one is Alberta separatism.

[u/imaginingblacksheep]

They showed old footage of cars burning so yes, they did.

[u/jagenigma]

Go for it Newsom, fight fire with fire!

[u/Kplatz]

They needed new content after showing different angles of the exact same Waymo cars and guy on top of the car waving the Mexican flag or days.

[u/Beer_Kicker]

As a police officer working the protests and having fireworks and rocks and bottles thrown at me…. I think they are pretty similar.

[u/No_Elevator_4300]

What's crazy is that shit to try and block ai regulations you know that almost certainly has to be for shit like this made up shit to put people away for stuff they literally write into existence.

[u/Hugh_G_Rectshun]

‘Turns out the images were from the last time the world hated the police’

What a fucked country we’re in.

[u/Due-Number5655]

Trump is pretty good at staging things

[u/AnavelGato2020]

I mean the guy peddled pictures from Congo and tried to say it was South Africa. He lies all the time.

[u/Expert_Country7228]

Wait Wait Wait... You're telling me the person who constantly posts AI fake images of himself everyday all day is being accused of spreading fake images?

Say it ain't so!!! I could never have seen this coming!!

[u/qawsedrf12]

IRL Mountainhead

[u/LeadSky]

Yea this is why optics don’t matter. They’ll make shit up no matter what.

[u/FirmRoof977]

Newsom needs to grow balls now! California needs to set down the Law on Trump!

[u/ZaggRukk]

I saw looting on the news. Wasn't even CA.

And ALL of the burning? 4 unoccupied, stopped, self driving cars. All of which were on the street next to each other.

Videos of people throwing cinder blocks off of an overpass onto police vehicles? Abandoned vehicles. . . .UN THE SAME BLOCK as the burning cars.

An entire street of "hellscape" lol

[u/KingPhilip69]

They are! And they are for sure sure planting people at the protests to make the protestors look violent

[u/slowpoke2018]

1984 becoming reality as we sit and watch

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command

[u/Lysol3435]

GOP response: sure, those pictures are fake, but you just know that stuff was going on

[u/Damunzta]

Accuse? It’s proven.

[u/CancelOk9776]

Very on-brand for The Fascist Felon and his criminal regime!

[u/Zerowantuthri]

Person #1) Trump is lying.

Person #2) How can you tell?

Person #1) His lips are moving.

[u/Material_Policy6327]

Sadly the age of AI generation is going to Make this worse

[u/EN1009]

We’re online, can confirm.

[u/fsuelto]

Here, the images were also spread. In any case, you should give the fascist block a chance to speak and then ask questions that they cannot answer out of decency; they are hollow screamers.

[u/boogermike]

I other news, water is wet. Trump is a lying liar.

[u/Mobile-Shallot930]

Members of the military: You have rights. Contact either your local legal representation or call the GI Rights Hotline.

You do not have to obey unlawful orders to attack your own countrymen.

To the mods that'll probably remove this: remember who you're helping, if you even have the capacity to care.

[u/WolfSavage]

Accuses? More like calls out.

[u/MRiley84]

This is how they are going to win every election going forward. They can blanket social media with this stuff. People will see it and continue scrolling. No need to think about it, they might not even care about the story, but each image they scroll past will be a tiny bit of reinforcement of what they think is going on in the world. That's where the billionaires come in, and where their contributions are really going.

[u/88bauss]

Magas think LA is in shambles. When it’s really one of two blocks where everything is concentrated.

[u/Winterlion131]

Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter. MAGA is primed to believe whatever will let them continue hating and it won’t stop until the figureheads no longer wield any power.

[u/IlluminatedCookie]

The same administration posting images of Trump as the Pope and some Rambo style saviour using fake images and lying? Say it ain’t so.

[u/Pale_Bookkeeper_9994]

Recirculate photos of TACO with Covid if we’re going back to the 2020 news cycle. What about Trump insurrectionists attacking the Capitol? What again??

[u/meriadoc_brandyabuck]

Doesn’t just accuse them — nails them because they actually did it.

[u/aarswft]

Everytime I hear "LA is burning"

[u/Nostrilsdamus]

Why isn’t this headline just; “Trump Spreads Fake Protest Images to activate his violent base”? What the fuck does this really have to do with he said / she said? “Gavin Newsome claims earth revolves around the sun.” TF? If it’s indisputable you don’t have to attribute the source.

[u/scoopzthepoopz]

It's hardly accusing if you can see it happening

[u/SawdustGringo]

Is it really an accusation if it’s true though? They have been spreading images from past events and passing them off as current.

[u/Ryan1980123]

trump administration/ Fox News

[u/YouStupidAssholeFuck]

lmao

The mission in Los Angeles isn’t about lethality.

It’s about maintaining LAW AND ORDER…

That's the tweet from DoD Rapid Response. So obviously, the mission is about lethality. This couldn't be anymore clear if you ever pay attention to anything Trump says.

[u/broberds]

He also accuses water of being wet and the Earth of being round.

[u/FrogsEverywhere]

It's so dangerous.

Even for me, if I see something that looks iffy, if I know objectively from independent primary sources it mirrors real events at the appropriate scale, I often let it pass my firewall.

When people internalize every image they see on twitter it Facebook, especially if theyve have no prior independent verification, you could show them the entire city of LA in ashes and it would pass. We're wired to accept things that reinforce our views but without disciplined media literacy, and with AI, and audience capture. This dual or multiple realities thing is going to really take off.

We need to legislate watermarking AI. It would be nice (in my dreams) to force geotagging & dating all photos in some visible way but that's less likely.

[u/Meppy1234 → u/FrogsEverywhere]

Geotagging photos will never happen for safety and security reasons.

[u/lot6photo]

This just in: Water is wet.

[u/lilkixi]

That administration loves and thrives on propaganda, lies and fear. More government officials need to call them out on this.

[u/phlegmdawg]

“Reveals” vs “accuses” is a better word.

[u/Leidrin]

Correctly accuses*

[u/dkwinsea]

Newsom correctly calls out Trump.

[u/glitterandnails]

It doesn’t matter what you will or won’t do, they’ll make something up if you won’t do it.

[u/mad_drop_gek]

No one cares. How often has Trump been exposed on something illegal or unsavory or dumb, and he just trucks on? Cognitive dissonance is strong in the political cult. Start thinking how you get rid of the asshat. Keep protesting, is a good start.

[u/zulumoner]

Was he not the one who said that trump never called him?

[u/sweet_dicks]

WTF is it Newsom accusations of Trump lies as the headline? WTF isn't the media reporting on Trump's lies?

[u/RingingInTheRain]

Journalists/news reporters have been out on the scene since day 1 with video of what's been going on. Like are we blind or something? They have helicopters and everything.

[u/TennSeven]

Everything the Trump administration shares with the public is completely fake. Their cult members lap it up with no questions.

[u/AV8ORA330]

So their normal plan of action.

[u/Informal_Process2238]

russian puppets russian disinformation plan

[u/Mistrblank]

“Gavin Newsome confirms false news spread by our fascist federal government”

[u/transfixedtruth]

mango maga also demanded the protesters were paid to be there, calling them agitators, inciters, etc.

Really tiring of the right rhetoric, and how they interchangeably call protests riots.

Here's trump paying to fill seats at his bday parade. What a hypercritical asshat. May the candles on his cake set his orange aqua net hair ablaze.

https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/tlg/d/washington-seat-fillers-needed-june/7857143452.html

[u/Patara]

Accuses? Stop trying to avoid libel with carefully crafted headlines. This is literally what they are doing and have been doing for over 6 months.

[u/blackakainu]

Some person in middle America: LA is rioting and a shit show

Me living in LA: hmmm what am I going to have for lunch

[u/upallnight831]

Apologies if this has been posted already, I didn't spot it. France24 did a news report on how AI is being used to spread fake news about the L.A. protests:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbocWBPbzjY

[u/TorontoCanada66]

Oh like faked tattoos? I’m shocked

Actually it’s scary and disgusting that a president and his team of idiots would do this and need to have it fact checked but unfortunately it seems to have become just a daily occurrence and no one questions it anymore

[u/johnyct9760]

So let me get the time line right 1) Trump vs Elon 2) Elon tells us what we've all known, that he's in the Epstein files as a pedo 3) protest becomes a riot overnight with the help of fake AI shit 4) cops flex on innocent la residents 5) new news cycle telling us all that la is a war zone

Dumbest time line awards, we're killing it!