Controversy is swirling online over whether or not Kamala Harris and Tim Walz really did have a large crowd at their recent rally in Detroit as was claimed.
Corporate media imagery and video footage would seem to show an airplane hangar full of people cheering on the current vice president and her running mate, but photos shared to X would seem to suggest otherwise.
The following photo pair depicts what appears to be an empty runway in the reflection of Air Force 2 contrasted with a large crowd of people cheering and holding up political signs – was there editing and possibly artificial intelligence (AI) involved?
Other angles of the walkdown and crowd show that fencing erected outside the hangar prevented Harris-Walz supporters from actually standing on the tarmac, which is what the reflection in the plane engine appears to depict.
Could it be that the crowd of people was simply not visible in the reflection because they were all standing inside the hangar out of the sunlight, or was some kind of chicanery used to try to mimic the crowds at a past Donald Trump rally?
The video footage below shows the crowd waving and screaming as Kamala and Walz stroll down the stairs. Does anything appear off to you, or is it simply that the crowd appears closer to the airplane from this angle than it actually is, hence the illusion in the engine’s reflection of nobody standing there?
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