President Trump and the White House regularly circulate imagery that has been manipulated by A.I. But the photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong was different.
The goal is not to make people believe their faked images are real.
The goal is to make people believe our real images are fake.
Once the seed of doubt occurs, the work is done. That was the point of following vaccine denial with funding. Now, science is doubted in more general terms, not just vaccines.
It does both. No need for an either/or
Yup. And when accountability isn’t even on the table, they win either way.
While President Trump and the White House regularly circulate imagery altered by artificial intelligence, including demeaning and racist deepfakes, it is usually so over the top that the goal seems more about cartoonish mockery than outright deceit.
The photograph of Ms. Levy Armstrong was different. It has the hallmarks of brazen disinformation from the top level of government: smearing and humiliating one citizen in order to influence public opinion, while sending a warning to other critics to beware of crossing the administration.
Remember this when they say “libruls cant take a joke”
a misleading description of Ms. Levy Armstrong as a “far-left agitator”
lol, everybody who doesn’t lick The Don’s boots thrice gets that moniker.
