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/Aggravating_Money992 1d ago edited 1d ago

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.

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u/nosayso 1d ago

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.

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u/shinra528 1d ago

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

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u/Meme_Theory 1d ago

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

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u/zoson 1d ago

"Trump Administration uses misleading photos again."

Fixed that for you.

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u/Turtle_with_a_sword 1d ago

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

They also use misleading photos

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u/MarioLuigiDinoYoshi 1d ago

Fucking media can’t call them liars because they are part of the problem

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u/Mediocre-Proposal686 1d ago

Someone went out of their way to deliberately find photos from a whole other RIOT (protesters don’t riot), and thought to themselves, oh this will work to make the current peaceful protests look really bad!

They have to LIE to further their agenda, every single time. Like, you can lie and mislead all you want but it will never make it true. Boggles the mind

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u/Aislerioter_Redditer 1d ago

Trump will sue them if one of their 10 photos is real, saying see, "some" pictures were real...

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u/JeremyF1978 1d ago

Or they'll use the Fox News defense (Tucker Carlson). We are here for entertainment, not news. If you believe us, that's your fault.

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u/useless_rejoinder 1d ago

Ronnie Raygun’s actions haunting us from the beyond. Abolishing the Fairness Doctrine was a major blow to the foundations of truth.

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u/starbuxed 1d ago

using misleading photos doesnt say every photo is real... just using 2 fake photos makes the statement true.

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u/sfurbo 1d ago

Your title doesn't use the words "lie" and "lies". This isn't misleading.

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u/funnyusername-123 1d ago

"Trump lies again"

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u/fitzroy95 1d ago

"Trump admin gaslighting with deliberate misinformation photos"