Is Biden's photo true in military uniform?

At the end of January 2024, a photograph of the President of the United States, sitting in a meeting room in camouflage clothes, dispersed on the Internet. We decided to check the authenticity of this picture. 

In addition to Bayden, other people in military uniforms are sitting in the photo, in the background, a screen with the image of a map is visible in the background. Many sources noted that the picture was taken in the situational center, and the meeting participants are discussing the possible military operation of the United States in the Middle East. The photo was published by some Information Portals (for example NewsfrontIA "Anti -fascist" And "DonPress"), Entertaining Resources, users of social networks (""VKontakte" X) and the platform blog ("Zen" Livejournal). Posted a picture in many popular Telegram channels: ""Sheikh Tamir"(128,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Politjoystik / Politjoystic"(127 000),"Tucker Carlson for Russia"(65,000) and others. 

Photos from the alleged meeting began to spread after January 28, three American troops died and 25 were injured as a result attacks The drone at the military base, located in the northeast of Jordan, near the border with Syria. On the same day by Biden declaredthat such actions will not remain unanswered.

A random person or paparazzi could clearly not capture the discussion of a possible military operation in the Middle East. However, find a picture in any official sources (for example, on the site White House, US Ministry of Defense, social networks President) or in the photographs of the authoritative media failed. 

The earliest publications with the disassembled photos that were “verified” were posted were posted simultaneously on January 30, 2024 at 01:03 Moscow time in Russian-speaking Telegram channels “Conflict z"(6000 views),"The Crimean Front"(585),"Power in truth"(380) and"Our Svyatogorsk!"(283). All these posts contained the same accompanying text: “Biden right now at a meeting with the country's highest military leadership. He is dressed in military uniform. " After only a minute publications With this picture and similar text appeared In a number of other pro-Russian Telegram channels. It is extremely unlikely that administrators of several small Russian -speaking channels at once could simultaneously gain access to a photo from a military meeting in the United States, which was not previously published in any media or an official source.

The fact of the project Lead Stories checked the picture with HIVE MODERATION - Service for the detection of content generated by neuralities. The analysis showed that with a probability of 99.9%, the distributed image was created by artificial intelligence (most likely, using Midjourney). “Checked” when loading the picture in Hive Moderation received a similar result. 

The author of several books on artificial intelligence Luke Brock On his page in X, he also noted that, most likely, the image was created using AI. The expert generated and attached several more similar photos with Biden in military uniforms, which looked as believable as the dismantled.

Thus, the picture under consideration does not have any official source and in any authoritative media, although it could make it a very limited circle of people from among the military, press services or journalists allowed for the coverage of military meetings at the highest level. The fact that the earliest discovered “verified” publications were made simultaneously in several Russian-speaking Telegram channels, the administrators of which clearly could not be present at this event, indicates a coordinated campaign to spread the picture. Specialized services and experts in neural networks believe that the image is created using AI. 

Photo on the cover: Telegram channel "Conflict z"

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