It’s ok, I never trusted any audio/video/images from this administration in the first place.

I’m getting a lot of miles out of Orwell these days.

This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs -- to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

• 1984

My partner was fake edited in one of the DHS videos in Portland! He was wearing a moth man costume and dancing to EDM at the ICE center and they put fake smoke and filters over it to make him look scary lol.... Absolutely ridiculous.

What's new?

The US government and everyone that stands behind it, they want to make those who fight against ICE look like dangerous creatures that roam the Earth and must be stopped. They want to look like they're in total control, by making these fighters look desperate for their lives when they are arrested, by celebrating whenever one of them is killed. But most importantly, they want us to fight each other, so that we forget who is our true opponent on what is basically a war on our rights as human beings.

“It’s just a meme,” has the same energy as a confronted schoolyard bully, and apparently that’s just accepted etiquette now :/

Ive seen the same sentiment on Lemmy. Manipulative/misleading articles or even straight up misinformation is posted, and when I bring it up, OP’s response is “I don’t care.” As long as it’s the right ideology, it’s alright; and mods didn’t disagree.

…We’re so screwed, aren’t we? And by “we” I mean the internet. It’s nice to think of the Fediverse an oasis from all this, but it engineered in the same structural issues commercial social media has, I think.

This is the part where they do the thing they're about to start accusing others of also doing.

I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I mean, obviously it's a bad thing in the short term. I'm sure the current administration will continue to lie in more egregious ways. For example, if there were no clear bystander videos, would the DHS be releasing doctored bodycam footage to show Alex Pretti pulling his gun and trying to shoot ICE officers? Does that sound far-fetched? It's technically feasible. It might seem too big and blatant a lie, but that lie has already been told in words from the DHS and Trump administration. Why not embellish it further?

And of course it's enormously dangerous because no matter how blatant the lies are, there are many people who will accept them at face value, because they are too uneducated, or too locked into the "us and them" mentality to ever doubt the story that their team is selling.

So how could it be a good thing? Well, if the USA manages to rid itself of this cancer, the Trump administration will serve as irrefutable proof that government institutions cannot be considered intrinsically trustworthy, or relied on to act in good faith. There needs to be checks and balances like never before. That was always true, but knowing it and being able to act on it are two different things. The Trump administration's eagerness to lie, cheat and cause suffering, even in the most clumsy and blatant ways, shines a clear light on dangers that were already there. It is an exemplary model of the abuse of power, and I hope that one day we will be in a position to take lessons from it. Maybe I'm being overoptimistic. It seems like the lessons learned from Nazi Germany were mostly the "how to do this" kind. But there is a chance to make things better here, not just better than they are now but better than they were before.

So it's GUIMP? I thought it was "GNU Image Manipulation Program."

Since when have they been not using image manipulation for propaganda?

Sure it's way easier now, but it's not like manipulating images is a new tactic.

You should specify which government

I automatically think anything coming from this administration is propaganda bull shit taken from the horror version of Idiocracy.

Who could have seen this coming.

Man, are they gonna be pissed when people use this against them as well. Collectively we have more time to do stupid shit :)

Welcome to the 20th Century.

Beware: water is wet

Looks like we're going to end up a crossover of North Korea and Russia.

All because conservatives hate America and enough others don't give enough of a fuck to stop conservatives from destroying America.

OH MY GOD THERE ARE BEARS SHITTING IN THE WOODS!

I would expect breaking "phone gets an update pushed out like an Amber Alert" news if anyone in the administration told the truth

Wow, I don't know how I didn't notice this /sarcasm

I'm godsmacked, I tell ya whhat

Did we not already know this? Really?

In other news: water is wet

Sorry, that’s a total smartass dick comment, just kinda gettin in the bandwagon and voicing my existing frustration.

The "both sides" in the comments are exhausting.

Trump administration is literally denying video evidence, and using AI to manipulate photos in newspapers.

One is way more fucking bad than the other. And shame on you if you can't tell the fucking difference.

I was going to say that I don't understand why they put any effort into faking anything if they're going to blatantly lie about what we've all seen.

However, there's a reason to fake things. It's not to convince people that the faked things are real. It's to convince people that the real things are faked.

Edit: typo

Are you saying this is a fake pic? Who'd have known.