White House Reportedly Shares Purportedly AI-Altered Arrest Photo Depicting Minnesota Protester Nekima Levy Armstrong as Crying
Date: 2026-01-22
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Executive Office Of The President, Image Generation Technology Developers, White House, White House Communications Team
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1357: White House Reportedly Shares Purportedly AI-Altered Arrest Photo Depicting Minnesota Protester Nekima Levy Armstrong as Crying. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Executive Office Of The President, Image Generation Technology Developers, White House, White House Communications Team. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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