Molloy: People Are Sharing Fake Hurricane Helene Photos for Profit and Political Gain

[Nevilledog]

https://www.readtpa.com/p/people-are-sharing-fake-hurricane

“This picture has been seared into my mind,” wrote Amy Kremer. “My heart hurts,” she added alongside broken heart and crying emojis.

The picture in question, which had also been shared by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), showed a crying girl holding a puppy being rescued from what appeared to be the devastation of Hurricane Helene.

There’s just one problem: it was fake, an AI-generated creation.

Kremer is a right-wing political activist who has been using her feed to torch the Joe Biden administration for supposedly mishandling the response to Helene (though there’s little evidence that the response has been in any way mishandled). She’s an RNC National Committeewoman for Georgia Republicans, the founder of Women for Trump, and most famously helped organize the rally that immediately preceded the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“Y’all, I don’t know where this photo came from and honestly, it doesn’t matter,” she wrote in response to the dozens of people in her replies. “It is seared into my mind forever. There are people going through much worse than what is shown in this pic. So I’m leaving it because it is emblematic of the trauma and pain people are living through right now.”

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