White House Shares AI-Altered Arrest Photo

Following her Jan. 23 arrest, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong says the White House posted an image that appears to be AI-altered to show her crying, while another post showed a neutral expression. Her lawyer called the image defamation, and legal experts told Gizmodo that defamation claims face high hurdles—public-figure standards and proving actual malice—making legal remedies unclear.