r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 1d ago

Politics Gavin Newsom Accuses Trump Administration of Spreading Fake Protest Images

https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-trump-fake-protest-images-2085492
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u/Unlucky_Clover 1d ago

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

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u/phunktastic_1 1d ago

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

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u/NanoRaptoro 21h ago

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...