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AI image generators have improved so much that it is difficult to tell a real person from an AI-generated doppelganger, and Donald Trump may just be the most AI-generated persona on the internet. Did Trump really get photographed using a walker? Was he actually caught with his finger up his nose? Is that photo of him with a young girl on a plane real or fake?
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In Case You Missed It … The Pro-Trump Ad Boycott that Never Happened
Conservative social media accounts are claiming that Coca-Cola and General Motors pulled their advertising from NBC and ABC to protest the two networks’ decision not to broadcast President Donald Trump’s July 16 national address on election security.
The claim originated as satire, although the accounts sharing it didn’t note that.
Read the full story here.
This newsletter was edited by Sofia Rubinson and Eric Effron.
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