Does a Viral Photo Show Jeffrey Epstein with President Biden?

The image has been photoshopped.

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A popular Facebook post claims to show a picture of President Joe Biden with Jeffrey Epstein with the caption, “​​Okay, Facebook wants to play fact checkers with me then. Let’s play …. ♟”

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    Ben Connelly

    Flesmih llik ton did nietspE

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    The Stray Goose

    My first thought was, “why is Epstein hanging out with Clint Howard?“

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    Scarlette Tarte

    These people are just upset because the one with their guy is real...https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-sdny-trial-20211201-ey5a6t55wfguvcdictkx2g6gra-story.html

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      rlritt

      Sadly the Republicans used to be the moral majority. Now they applaud sex between and old man and an underage girl. Look how they promote Gaetz, while Liz Cheney get the boot.

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    Victor Clairmont

    Fact check powers goooo!

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    William Cotton

    Unfortunately this fact check has an unintended consequence. Because this is shown to be photoshopped it will then lend credence to the idea that other real photographs with Epstein and popular figures might also be photoshopped.

    We’re in an epistemic death spiral.

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      rlritt

      It's possible to tell the difference.

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        Mink

        Is it?

        You replied to a NLP comment

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          rlritt

          What does that mean?

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    2. Matt C

      True, people will believe what they want, but this one isn't even a good shoop. The moment I looked it was clear what had been done. Just zoom in a little along the edges of Epstein and you'll see how unnaturally jagged the edges are.

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      Mink

      And our death spiral is only going to get worse as deepfakes get better and better and NLP's like GPT-3 are able to generate unlimited content indistinguishable from human generated text.

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        Scarlette Tarte

        Which is why the old phrase from the Linda Ronstadt song rings true as ever..."Believe only half of what you see and none of what you hear".

        That is how we need to treat everything today. Until we have a mountain of evidence that something is true...remain skeptical.

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      Wes

      the truth only gets in the way of the desired narrative.

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