White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says “the memes will continue”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/white-house-posts-altered-arrest-photo-to-make-it-appear-ice-critic-was-sobbing/

27 Comments

  1. It’s almost like MAGAts have the emotional maturity of 13 year olds.

    My apologies to 13 year olds.

  2. That’s serious, government altering a photo is fraud. Especially, if it’s being used as an official record. Doing something like that in the pre-trump era would scrutinized for months. Too much is being normalized under trumps authoritarian take over.

  3. Silicon_Knight on

    Kinda goes to show that the purpose is the cruelty if they needed to modify the photo in such a way to highlight that aspect of it.

  4. This is not a “meme”. This is disinformation from the official government social media account. They’ve posted a lot of stupid memes that are clearly altered images. This one was designed to look real, to deceive.

  5. We really need some laws about Ai generated content tagging. Not sure where this trash is published but hopefully it has a community comment section that can add the context that the image has been manipulated.

    I also hope that this person is able to somehow be compensated for the fakery. This was not meant to meme, a meme would have been clear and obvious. This is meant to deceive.

  6. “We want to upset our enemies and normalize falsehoods. We know people don’t care if it happens to Blacks first so we’ll start there.”

  7. All_Hail_Hynotoad on

    Can they be sued for defamation? It’s clearly being done with malice, whether they call it a meme or not.

  8. TheSilverNoble on

    More reasons to doubt anything coming out of this administration. Not that we really needed more. But man, they’ll lie about anything. 

  9. Call me crazy but it shouldn’t be legal for official state organizations to put out false information and doctored photos.

  10. dbzelectricslash331 on

    Such a trashy government. And they take such pride it it. Knows their base well. The trashy selfish ignorant dogs that they are.

  11. areallyreallybadboy on

    The United States of America is not a serious country at the moment. Jaw dropping levels of stupid. Thanks, red hats. Fuck you very much.