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Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version
- Aurornis 9mo agoThe current link is basically devoid of information, but clicking through to this page shows the two pictures with a slider to move between them: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-levy-armstrong-crying-minnesota-3de56d267fe704d16fac31d8fc3d71e9 https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-levy-armstrong-crying-... The differences are not subtle
- autoexec 9mo agoOf course they darkened her skin color.
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- krapp 9mo agofrom where? What was the point at which law enforcement was putting out propaganda making suspects look whiter than they are?
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- eudamoniac 9mo agoCome on now. This is a readily observable phenomenon; everyone notices it on both sides of the spectrum. It doesn't deserve your aggressive polemic. From Wiktionary, "The observation that the longer it takes the media to identify a mass shooter in the United States, the less likely it is to be a white male."
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- 000ooo000 9mo agoGood news Satya, we finally found a use for all that electricity you're burning! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718485
- matthewaveryusa 9mo agorealpolitik time folks: First do a left-right on the link that Aurornis posted [1]. Notice the extra fat in the chin, the elongated ear, the enlarged mouth and nose, the frizzlier hair, the lower shirt cut. You hate it. You think, intellectually, that this shouldn't work and surely no one would have the gall to so brazenly do this without the fear of being caught and shamed. And then you think, well once the truth is revealed that there will be some introspection and self-reflection on being tricked, and that maybe being tricked here means being tricked elsewhere. Well someone, in an emotionless room, min-maxed the outcomes and computed that the expected value from such an action was positive. And here we are. https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-levy-armstrong-crying-minnesota-3de56d267fe704d16fac31d8fc3d71e9 https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-levy-armstrong-crying-...
- xboxnolifes 9mo agoThere is no need to min-max. There is never a large scale introspection after a media correction. Most people will never see the correction and will still believe what they saw first, years later, if not for the rest of their life. Or they do hear about it, maybe a few days or a week later, but they dismiss it because its old news at the point and not worth thinking about to them. Truth is, most people are never really thinking most of the time. They're reacting in the moment and maybe forming a rationale for their action after the fact.
- xrd 9mo agoCan I opt out of using my taxes to create memes? If Trump wants to use his cryptocurrency to shill for Truth Social I suppose I can't really complain. But, why do I have to pay for the department of meme wars?
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- the_gipsy 9mo agoI remember reading an article about how terrible AI could be in the hands of a regime like China's. What a time to be alive, I guess.
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- burnt-resistor 9mo agoCorruption and fealty run deep, and so does Democratic impotency (except for about 100 clean ones, but it's not even close to enough to make a difference) because their corporate masters desire it.
- defrost 9mo agoIndeed. With all the deepest respect toward the US citizens I know, have talked to, and those that don't support the current administration ... Theres's now _zero_ respect for the US. Yours sincerely, long time five eyes allies.
- gizmov21 9mo agoWhat, pray tell, can we do? Tens of thousands of people are protesting and some getting arrested, anyone with a voice is doing what they can to sway public opinion. Our higher courts are compromised (and feckless at times even when used correctly), and the police help ICE. And a large number of Americans do, in fact, want this. Others don’t care until it hits them personally. So what specifically are people to do, like myself, who live in an unaffected area and who’s politicians are in fact speaking out against this?
- psadauskas 9mo agoAnd most Americans are just trying to survive, working 3 gig jobs for barely minimum wage, while the cost of everything is skyrocketing.
- autoexec 9mo ago> What, pray tell, can we do? Vote better for a start. The amount of support this administration has is still way too high considering everything they've done and are doing. It's shaken my faith in humanity a bit to see how many of the people around me don't seem to actually value humanity.
- mattnewton 9mo agoI think we're never going to be able to have robust ai detection, and current models are as bad as they'll ever be. Instead we really need to have the ability to sign images on cameras that show these are the bits that came off this hardware unedited, that professional news outlets can verify. But that's going to cost money to make and market all these new cameras and I just don't know how we incentivize or pay for this, so we're left unable to trust any images and video in the near future. I can only think of technical solutions and not the social changes that need to happen before the tech is wanted and adopted.
- breve 9mo agoSony cameras can sign still images and videos to vouch that they are not AI generated: https://authenticity.sony.net/camera/en-us/index.html https://authenticity.sony.net/camera/en-us/index.html https://www.sony.eu/presscentre/sony-launches-camera-verify-feature-for-its-camera-authenticity-solution-for-news-organisations https://www.sony.eu/presscentre/sony-launches-camera-verify-... Ideally it'd become an open standard supported by all manufacturers. Which is what they're trying to do: https://c2pa.org/ https://c2pa.org/
- mattnewton 9mo agoThank you, this is fantastic to know! I think we have to normalize requiring this or similar standards for news, it will go a long way. Ideally we would have a similar attestation from most people's cameras (on their smartphones) but that's a much harder problem to also support with 3p camera apps.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 9mo agoMore like I won't trust anything that doesn't come from a press photographer.
- cmxch 9mo agoAnd what will make them more trustworthy?
- nneonneo 9mo agoDon’t worry! According to the White House, it’s just a meme! Making up fake news is totally fine as long as you can say you’re memeing! The WH using social media (X, Pravda Social) for official communication is highly deliberate - they get to declare post-hoc what is actually real communication and what is “just memes”. Of course it won’t make any difference to people amplifying the content. If the WH had to stick to traditional outlets for news they wouldn’t have this fig leaf to hide behind.
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- knowsuchagency 9mo agoWhy was this flagged?
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- TFYS 9mo agoThe government "just mocking people" is already disgusting behavior that belongs to failed states, but it's not even that, it was clearly just propaganda to make the opposition look weak. If it was a "meme" they should've said so in the post before being called out.
- zahlman 9mo ago> The government "just mocking people" is already disgusting behavior that belongs to failed states Trump is also a citizen. > it was clearly just propaganda to make the opposition look weak And? It comes across that you're upset that something you find in poor taste happened to target someone you agree with. > If it was a "meme" they should've said so in the post before being called out. Why would they say something that's obvious to people with common sense?
- f1restar 9mo agoYou either haven't seen the post, or are being disingenuous. In case some readers haven't seen it, the altered image (crying & wailing, instead of calm & resolute) was posted by the official white house account with the following overlay text: --- ARRESTED FAR-LEFT AGITATOR NEKIMA LEVY ARMSTRONG FOR ORCHESTRATING CHURCH RIOTS IN MINNESOTA --- The post is a reply to one made by the same account half an hour earlier, with the following text: --- MINNESOLA ARRESTS Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi Minutes ago at my direction, @HSI_HQ and @FBI agents executed an arrest in Minnesota. So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. We will share more updates as they become available. Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP. UPDATE: A second arrest has been made at my direction. Chauntyll Louisa Allen has been taken into custody. More to come. WE WILL PROTECT OUR HOUSES OF WORSHIP --- Obviously a joke, and we're stupid for not seeing it as one, eh? This manipulative crap may have worked when you were in high school, but any adult with a "sense of humour and critical thinking skill" (as you put it in your other comment), would see through the ruse. It's funny, because this exact way of thinking is what got us into this mess in the first place. Obviously he was joking when he said he would do all those terrible things!