{"id":394661,"date":"2025-09-03T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394661\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:42:11","slug":"bbc-verify-live-was-fatal-us-strike-on-venezuelan-drug-boat-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394661\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Was fatal US strike on Venezuelan &#8216;drug boat&#8217; legal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion retailer Shein removes \u2018Luigi Mangione\u2019 imagepublished at 14:40 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>14:40 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/24d2d5d4-d458-4196-aaee-113790d4fafc.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Thomas Copeland<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The online fast-fashion outlet Shein has confirmed to BBC Verify that an image appearing to show US murder accused Luigi Mangione modelling a shirt did appear on its website but has now been removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The image apparently showing Mangione in a white. short-sleeved shirt has been shared widely on X, TikTok and Facebook, with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1963048820025008269\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">one post on X gathering nearly five million views, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mangione has been charged by US authorities with the murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last December and is currently being held in federal custody. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThe image in question was removed immediately upon discovery,\u201d a Shein spokesperson said, adding they are \u201cconducting a thorough review and are strengthening our monitoring processes\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An archived version of the page is still accessible via the<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250903014800\/https:\/\/m.shein.com\/us\/Men%27s-New-Spring\/Summer-Short-Sleeve-Blue-Ditsy-Floral-White-Shirt,-Pastoral-Style-Gentleman-Shirt-For-Everyday-Wear,-Family-Matching-Mommy-And-Me-(3-Pieces-Are-Sold-Separately)-p-59358613.html?cdn_rsite=cf&amp;ref=www&amp;rep=dir&amp;ret=mus\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Internet Archive Way Back Machine, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Facial recognition tool Amazon Rekognition found a 99.9% similarity score between the fake image and a real picture of Mangione appearing in court.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A side-by-side comparison of the fake image and a real picture of Mangione appearing in court showing a 99.9% similarity score\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/78959cb3-f25f-4604-b48c-93ac74e7dc72.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"1284\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reverse image searches suggest the image has not appeared on the internet before the early hours of this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is unclear whether it was created using artificial intelligence or a manual photo editing tool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThe image is low resolution, but there are a few signs that it might be AI-generated or manipulated,\u201d said Henry Ajder, an expert on generative-AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThis includes the lighting and texturing of the image, particularly of the skin, as well the appearance of a blob-like artifact above the right forearm. The right hand also doesn&#8217;t appear to show typical segmentation of the fingers,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ajder added that generating an image like this using AI is now far quicker and easier than manual photo editing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fashion retailer Shein removes \u2018Luigi Mangione\u2019 imagepublished at 14:40 British Summer Time 14:40 BST Thomas CopelandBBC Verify Live&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-394661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115140660105114534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}