Original image of banner contains threatening message to motorcyclists, not the President of the United States g1 Publications are circulating on social media showing a photo of a banner hanging between two posts on a street with a threat to anyone who praises the Donald Trump government's recent decision to classify the Brazilian factions Comando Vermelho (CV) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) as terrorist organizations. It's #FAKE. Fake Stamp (Horizontal) g1 🔴 What’s the post like? The publications went viral on X from July 1st. They display what would be an image taken from a news program shown by TV Gazeta, a TV Globo affiliate in Espírito Santo. The scene shows a banner hanging between two poles with the following words: "Forbidden to praise Trump's decision. Subject to beatings. We will not accept these things in the community, etc.". At the bottom of the frame, there is a false statement that simulates a journalistic description: "TRAFFIC MESSAGE. Banners were placed threatening supporters of the American decision that classified the PCC as a terrorist organization." But that's a lie. This material distorts real content that has nothing to do with the President of the United States. The original message said: "Turning off and calling in grade is prohibited. Subject to beating", as reported in a report published by g1 ES on January 3, 2022, when Trump's second term had not even begun. The actual description stated: "Banners were placed threatening motorcyclists in the São Pedro neighborhood, in Vitória." The expression "spinning" refers to the act of holding down the motorcycle's clutch to cause a loud noise. "Calling in grade" is synonymous with prancing. See two examples of captions that accompany the manipulated content: "In territory occupied by drug trafficking, anyone who talks about Trump can be tortured. This is the sovereignty that Lula, the left, the media and even banks are defending. This needs to end! Let Flávio be elected and, with Trump, eliminate all these people. We want the sovereignty of law and order!"; and "Lula's boys are forbidding residents from praising @POTUS and @SecRubio's decision." In the comments section of one of the posts, there are messages from users who believed in the authenticity of the message. One said: "Terrorist thinking it's bad to be called a terrorist and acting like a terrorist in retaliation." The publications went viral days after US State Department Secretary Marco Rubio announced that Brazilian factions would be classified as "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" and "Specially Designated Global Terrorists". On June 5, the designations formally came into force. The measure paves the way for the action of American counterterrorism bodies, including, according to analysts, the application of sanctions against Brazilian authorities and financial institutions. ⚠️ Why #IS IT FAKE? See below the comparison between the authentic image (at the top), shown in the 2022 report, and the manipulated one, which recently went viral on social media (at the bottom): Comparison between authentic and fake tracks g1 Watch the real 2022 report in the following video: Banners threatening to 'beat up' anyone who rides a motorbike are placed on the streets of Vitória Fato ou Fake submitted the doctored version of the image to Gemini, Google's artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, which pointed out the following visual evidence of manipulation: "Too straight" letters on a crooked banner - The actual banner is hanging in the street, has waves and folds from the wind. But, in the section "Forbidden to praise Trump's decision", the red and white letters appear perfectly straight and flat, without following the wrinkles in the fabric ("which shows that they were 'glued' on top of the computer or cell phone"). Weird blurs around text - In the original image, the image doesn't look checkered if someone zooms in on the photo. In the adulterated version, this point is much more blurred, full of "ghosts" and "visual dirt" around the manipulated letters. Fake letters are very "hard" - The text in black ("Subject to shit"), which was in the real range, suffers the action of the sun and ambient lighting. The letters in the phrase "Forbidden to praise Trump's decision" appear as if they had been cut with digital scissors. Standard errors in the "stripe" that imitates television news - The words appear squeezed, misaligned and out of standard in the section "Banners were placed threatening supporters of the American decision that classified the PCC as a terrorist organization". 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