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Body Checking the Fact-Checkers – NEWSWEEK
Maybe just go back to fact-checking jokes?
In what has to be a contender for Fact-Check of the Year, the brain trust at Newsweek felt the need to delve into the veracity of what was clearly a gag image. First, Donald Trump and his entourage of winners posed on an airplane with a McDonald’s dinner spread before them. Xitter account “bone” used the Grok AI to fabricate a painting that replicated the photo in the style of a Dutch master from the 1700s, claiming the artist was named Dietz Nuutzen. The blatant humorous aspects were in layers.
This 1721 painting by Deitz Nuützen predicted the Trump-Elon-RFK McDonalds dinner pic.twitter.com/CM9xDNmaKG
However, if you are a journalist at Newsweek, anything involving Donald Trump needs to be addressed in the most serious of fashion and debunked thoroughly. Flynn Nicholls was comprehensive in his debunking, researching the “artist,” performing a reverse-image search, and conducting all manner of forensic investigation to root out the fact that this was a manipulated image.
Thankfully, we have Newsweek on the case, protecting us from humor. And they say that the Harris campaign was the one that ran on “joy.”
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