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  • 2022-09-26 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘Defund the Police’ Digitally Altered Attack Ad – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • ‘Defund the Police’ Digitally Altered Attack Ad Claim North Carolina political activists digitally altered a shirt worn by Rep. Ricky Hurtado (D) to read defund the police. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting On September 25 2022, a screenshot of a popular tweet apparently showed a dishonest attack advertisement against Rep. Ricky Hurtado (D- North Carolina): Look at this – it’s a comically dishonest political attack in NC. Rep. Ricky Hurtado had his picture taken while picking up trash in his district. His GOP opponent **photoshopped it** and is sending it as a mailer to attack him. Let’s make sure this backfires. pic.twitter.com/R6JXx1wdnP — Sen. Jeff Jackson (@JeffJacksonNC) September 25, 2022 In the tweet, North Carolina Sen. Jeff Jackson (D) shared two side-by-side images of Hurtado, describing a comically dishonest political attack. In a color photograph to the left (labeled The Original Photo) Hurtado wore a campaign shirt with his name on it. A cursory look at the color image compared to the black-and-white version hinted that the latter version had been altered. Elements such as the wrinkle pattern on Hurtado’s right shoulder were identical in both versions. On the right side of the image, text read Latest attack ad from Ross and his GOP allies. A much grainier version of the same image appeared on the left, but Hurtado’s shirt had been changed to read defund the police. On September 25 2022, a Reddit account shared the images to r/NorthCarolina : Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die Not much surprises me when it comes to political attacks in NC anymore, but this photoshop job against Rep. Ricky Hurtado is pretty wild. You should know this is the level things have reached. from NorthCarolina Hurtado acknowledged the edited image on Twitter : When someone shows you who they are, believe them. This is the tip of the iceberg w/ the trash I’ve seen in my district. Sad to see my opponent & the GOP resort to this. My team has been working hard to expose these lies but need your help. Chip in: https://t.co/hgB2TPdIK7 https://t.co/ja9P8TYGgB — Rep. Ricky Hurtado (@rickyhurtadonc) September 26, 2022 Hurtado also addressed the mailer in a September 23 2022 Facebook post , explaining: Picking up trash isn’t glamorous. But one early morning in March [2022], I joined hundreds of participants in the annual Haw River Clean-A-Thon. Together, volunteers removed more than 250 bags of garbage from the waterways and trails that lead to the Haw River, taking care of one of Alamance County’s most precious resources. Why am I writing about this today? Recently, a picture from that day was mailed to thousands of voters in our district. You wouldn’t know it, though, because my opponent Stephen Ross and his GOP allies had taken liberties with the photo to spread fear and lies in our community. Talk about trash. This won’t stop me from focusing my energy where it needs to be: serving our community. Finding real solutions for working families. Earning votes with facts and vision, so we can keep on fighting for a brighter future for NC. Its sad to see these tactics used—that’s not leadership. Leadership is showing up and doing the work. It’s what I’ve done every day since I took office, it’s what I was doing on the banks of the Haw in March, and it’s what I’ll continue to do when I am re-elected this November. We don’t have time for these games—there is too much work to be done for our community. The controversy was similar to misleading anti-abortion robocalls made in Kansas on the eve of the state’s August 2022 abortion referendum. On September 26 2022, the Twitter account @ForwardCarolina shared three additional printed advertisements with similarly altered images. Two of the additional prints attacked other North Carolina politicians: Hey folks, we've got another exposed @NCHouseGOP photoshop hatchet job! #ncpol https://t.co/Guy76thFVM — Carolina Forward (@ForwardCarolina) September 26, 2022 While she's defending a dirty-tricks photoshop job by her friends, you should read about how Amy Not My Job Galey sat on her hands while Alamance County had the highest rate of deaths from COVID in 2020. A disgraceful failure of leadership. https://t.co/UMKLaUrO2Y #ncpol https://t.co/6atuxB4SQD — Carolina Forward (@ForwardCarolina) September 26, 2022 Oh look, the @NCHouseGOP pulled this trash on @TerenceEveritt too – photoshopping fake mailer images. Probably more that we haven't heard about, too. #ncpol pic.twitter.com/3frTUOFqAQ — Carolina Forward (@ForwardCarolina) September 25, 2022 A search for Hurtado and Haw River Clean-A-Thon led to the lawmaker’s own March 19 2022 Facebook post about the event and his participation in it. Of the three images Hurtado shared in the post, only one had the entirety of the original campaign imagery visible (and thus likely had the best template for editing). A September 25 2022 Imgur post showed a tweet about a North Carolina attack advertising mailer which displayed an edited image of Democratic Party Rep. Ricky Hurtado. Hurtado’s campaign shirt was obscured and the image quality degraded, and a defund the police slogan was added to the shirt. Hurtado verified the existence of the mailer in a September 23 2022 Facebook post; he had originally shared the photograph in a set on March 19 2022. @ForwardCarolina located three additional attack advertisements with altered or misleading images after the Hurtado defund the police mailer began circulating. Posted in Disinformation , Fact Checks Tagged defund police , digitally altered photo , doctored , misleading political ads , ncpol , ricky hurtado , viral tweet , viral tweets (en)
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