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Yeah that DHS screenshot is fake. If you boost the exposure there's conspicuous gaps in the JPEG artifacts around the fields where they were edited.

They would have got away with it if they just used Inspect Element!



Are you sure?

https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1992314672436175055

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Head of Product at X also changed narratives in real-time, going from "this was never shown" for gray accounts like the DHS', to saying the feature was disabled due to incorrect information from IP ranges changing over time - when you're literally just checking their first IP check-in:

https://x.com/lporiginalg/status/1992385445024665655

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And there was, to everyone's credit, DOZENS of X threads of people torture-testing their browser recordings to confirm whether the information was legit or not:

https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1992331293212963080

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Make your own decisions, but that's what I took from the situation.


> Are you sure?

I'm sure that the screenshot going around shows signs of being edited, I checked that myself. For the rest, I have no idea.

https://postimg.cc/gngQL6BY


Maybe THAT screenshot was, but it's not looking good that the information in that screenshot (doctored or not) wasn't exposed.

Also fotoforensics is irrelevant, take a screenshot of an X account's information and you see those black bars. Why would they doctor the "@DHSgov" username otherwise lol?




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