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Parallel reality: Trump's plot to airbrush history weeks before the election
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What happened
AlterNet reports that Donald Trump’s social media account posted an AI-generated image of Xi Jinping’s arrival at Joint Base Andrews on a Thursday shortly before an election. The image showed Trump saluting beside Xi as a bomber passed overhead, but omitted Melania Trump and Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, both of whom appeared in video of the actual event.
Online speculation claimed Trump aide Natalie Harp had erased Melania and inserted herself. Fact-checkers identified the remaining blonde woman as chief of protocol Monica Crowley, who posted her own…
The skinny
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