The Royal Family recently released a photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales, and her three children. As it turns out, the photo was heavily doctored. Kate Middleton, the Princess, had doctored the photo herself. The manipulations were easy to catch, even by amateur photographers.

Within hours,  major news outlets asked their clients, newspapers, to stop using the image out of concern it had been altered in violation of their ethical standards. 

The BBC recently discovered deepfakes of Donald Trump surrounded by Black supporters. There are dozens of these AI-generated images, though none have been linked to his campaign. One has been linked to a conservative radio show in Florida.

Mark Kaye and his team created an image of Trump smiling with his arms around a group of black women at a party and shared it on Facebook with an article about Black voters supporting Trump.  

Kaye said, “I’m not a photojournalist. I’m a storyteller.” He’s a teller of stories alright. 

Over the next eight months, the bastards are going to be bombarding us with deep fakes and other tricks to win an election they don’t deserve to win. 

If you don’t think ethics and integrity are important, you’re wrong. At no time in history have ethics and integrity been more important.