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Trump falsely accuses Harris campaign of fabricated AI crowd photos

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Spectrum News has also determined 'the crowd did in fact exist, and the rally was attended by thousands of people, many of whom posted their own pictures and videos of the event, which was also livestreamed by dozens of news channels and attended by a slew of prominent politicians.'

It went on to quote Michigan outlet MLive, which said 'About 15,000 people filled the hangar, the crowd spilling out onto the tarmac.'

Getty Images photographer Andrew Harnick has also defended his photograph.

'It was a large crowd, and the pictures that I took that are on the Getty website speak to that,' he told the Daily Beast.

Harnick explained that he used a zoom lens - which could make objects appear closer than they actually were.

'The plane is actually a pretty far distance from the crowd,' he said, noting that he has covered politics for decades and has not shown any biases.

'We keep our opinions to ourselves and just cover what we see in front of us,' Harnick said of photographers.