aceA fake image of a Georgia mayor kissing a person went viral. Can US voters trust everything they see?
An image of Bianca Motley Broom, the mayor of College Park, Georgia, kissing a man who was not her husband in a bar spread far and wide on Facebook. The fact that it was fake is spreading faster, now, but only after it had been seen by thousands of people. “I think this is a sad commentary about where we are in our democracy, and where we are in our political discourse,” Motley Broom said. “It also seeks to reinforce really tired stereotypes about women in leadership.” Six years ago, when Motley Broom first took…
AI image generators were used to create and widely circulate a fake compromising image of an elected mayor, contributing to election disinformation and reinforcing gendered stereotypes about women in leadership.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-09-30
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