• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    17 days ago

    I don’t believe this is a real picture. Epstein’s left arm is raised to wrap behind Valdson’s back (you can see a bit of skin behind his left shoulder), but it also appears to be going down towards Epstein’s pockets. The collar has a green smudge. Epstein’s face just generally doesn’t look like his own.

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      17 days ago

      Imma be real, I didn’t believe it on twitter, but torygraph is cracker-acceptable source shrug-outta-hecks if idf blows up their hq in defamation strike, oh well

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      His right arm (left in the photo) and shoulder especially running up into the neck smudge make this a very unconvincing photo.

      Could be a still from a video, I’m suspicious about them calling it a “photo”, since it’s either edited or from a compressed video.

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        I don’t think it’s likely it’s from a video, that smudge is a huge artifact. But it also begs the question: how could the Telegraph publish this with the smudge and claim it’s an authentic photo? It’s almost like, too fake looking to be fake, because if they made it themselves it would be very easy to avoid simple mistakes like that.

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      Valdson’s right arm just fades to nothing and the shadows on Epstein’s right forearm make it look like lazy copy and paste

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        Since it is such an obvious edit, the idf-cool should blow up The Telegraph in a righteous crusade, or otherwise they are claiming him as one of theirs. Until the story breaks of the former, I’m believing the latter.