You won’t believe your eyes

Now that we’re in election year, let me make a prediction. This will be the worst yet. And not just because of the candidates, but because of all the apparatus that now covers our society. New York Post readers might remember how the media-censorship complex intervened in the last election.

But I predict that the new tools that have come online in just the last four years are going to make this one even worse. AI-generated images, fake images and much more. All of this means that factchecking and verification are going to matter more than ever.

And here’s one tiny example of how ridiculous this can get.

Earlier this week it was reported that the iconic Times Square kiss photo following the end of World War II had been banned from display at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. The reason given was that the woman being given a kiss by the sailor had not necessarily given “informed consent.” That happy image seems to be practically rape in the eyes of these prudes.

After a hullabaloo, the department said that the memo requesting the removal had been sent in error.

So the question arises. Did the withdrawal happen or not? The generally wrong “factchecking” site Snopes said that it was “false” to say that the department had removed the photo. The reason? Because the memo requesting the policy had been subsequently reported to have been sent in error. Did it happen or didn’t it? These are the weird falsehoods our country is getting over an uninformed memo about a non-informed consent kiss eight decades ago. Now imagine what would happen if something happened yesterday with, oh, I don´t know, Hunter Biden?