{"id":182993,"date":"2026-01-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/fact-check-posts-claim-this-image-shows-alex-pretti-helping-2-disabled-veterans-heres-the-truth\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:25:12","slug":"fact-check-posts-claim-this-image-shows-alex-pretti-helping-2-disabled-veterans-heres-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/fact-check-posts-claim-this-image-shows-alex-pretti-helping-2-disabled-veterans-heres-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Posts claim this image shows Alex Pretti helping 2 disabled veterans. Here&#8217;s the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/fact-check-posts-claim-image-110000737.html\">Fact Check: Posts claim this image shows Alex Pretti helping 2 disabled veterans. Here&#8217;s the truth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/fact-check-posts-claim-image-110000737.html\">https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/fact-check-posts-claim-image-110000737.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-30 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"uk.news.yahoo.com\">uk.news.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The circulated image purportedly showing Alex Pretti, a deceased nurse who was fatally shot by federal agents, assisting two disabled veterans during a physical therapy session, has been rated as fake.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple online sources including Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Threads, and X shared this image, raising concerns about its authenticity.<\/li>\n<li>Upon investigation, the image lacks credible evidence to support its veracity and displayed several signs indicative of being generated using AI.<\/li>\n<li>Google Gemini&#8217;s SynthID Detector found a digital watermark confirming the use of Google AI tools in part of the image&#8217;s creation.<\/li>\n<li>Reliable sources could not verify any instances where Pretti helped veterans with physical therapy as depicted in the image. <\/li>\n<li>Despite the lack of authenticity in the image, a different video from December 2024 showing Pretti paying a final salute to a veteran was authenticated by multiple reputable outlets as genuine.<\/li>\n<li>Additional signs of AI in the image include inaccuracies like 11 red and white stripes on the U.S. flag (vs. the actual 13 stripes) and a prosthetic discrepancy in one of the veterans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact Check: Posts claim this image shows Alex Pretti helping 2 disabled veterans. Here&#8217;s the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/snopes_632\/d7d3ef95dda543073a11804669949575","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182995,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182993\/revisions\/182995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}