Original source:
https://x.com/MattWolking/status/1831324280489152741
The claim:
https://x.com/Cmoney365247/status/1831388666079670561
The debunk:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13812837/Tim-Walz-family-brother-Trump-Kamala-campaign.html
A representative for Herbster told DailyMail.com those posing are related to Walz through his grandfather's brother.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/tim-walzs-family-endorses-trump-truth-behind-viral-photo/articleshow/113071205.cms
A community note on X said everyone in the photo has four fingers in the badly made AI image. But Ron edwards, a political operative, said the photo was genuine and the people in it were related to Walz through his paternal great-uncle.
https://x.com/CWHerbster/status/1831314351308845431
https://x.com/AP/status/1831477364611494161
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3143862/nebraska-walz-family-confirms-viral-pro-trump-photo-picture-real/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nebraska-walzs-for-trump/
Debunking with image scanners and reasoning:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/umm-maybe/AI-image-detector
https://www.aiornot.com/dashboard/home
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Why-does-AI-art-screw-up-hands-and-fingers-2230501
https://medium.com/dare-to-be-better/can-we-read-in-a-dream-and-how-to-teach-ai-to-write-text-in-an-image-a2850fceb0df
But the brother:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jeff-walz-tim-brother-trump-harris-b2605252.html
He added: “The stories I could tell. Not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.”
“I’m 100% opposed to all his ideology,”
https://x.com/metzgov/status/1831402074099359854 (audio clip)
Debunk from another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7PcEGDOF8
A case of faulse equivalents:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/paul-gosar-arizona-family-siblings.html (Gosar)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kennedy-family-members-denounce-rfk-jr-trump-endorsement-rcna168024 (Kennedy)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/family-feud-divides-kennedys-as-rfk-jr-siblings-endorse-biden/
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