“Photo of Kamala Harris’ Aug. 7 rally near Detroit was AI-generated and “there was nobody there.” Attendees pictured “didn’t exist.”
What PolitiFact found
Local news reports and dozens of photos and videos from local and national media outlets documented an Aug. 7 Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign rally with thousands of attendees at Michigan’s Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
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In short
Donald Trump (Former President) made this claim around 11 August 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 August 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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