Internet latches onto conspiracies over McConnell’s health update questioning if senator’s photo is real
- Mitch McConnell’s health update and photograph showing him to be alive and well, conspiracy theorists continue to push baseless claims that the image of the 84-year-old sitting upright in bed is AI-generated.
- Laura Loomer, a MAGA conspiracy theorist who has the ear of President Donald Trump, said that McConnell’s update was “bulls***” and outlined why she believed the photo was AI-generated.
- Last week she said that a “high-level source close to the White House” told her that McConnell was “brain dead” and “not coming back.
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- Mitch McConnell’s health update and photograph showing him to be alive and well, conspiracy theorists continue to push baseless claims that the image of the 84-year-old sitting upright in bed is AI-generated.
- Laura Loomer, a MAGA conspiracy theorist who has the ear of President Donald Trump, said that McConnell’s update was “bulls***” and outlined why she believed the photo was AI-generated.
- Last week she said that a “high-level source close to the White House” told her that McConnell was “brain dead” and “not coming back.
Sources: The Independent