Axios Uses Fake AI Image to Run Damage Control for Somali Politician Who Spoke Next to Upside-Down Flag

Breitbart ^ | 21 Oct 2026 | John Nolte

[Skwor]

To defend a leftist politician who spoke in front of an upside-down American flag, Axios published a fake fact check claiming the video was “doctored” by AI and that, in reality, the flag was right side up.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: fraudtruth; liberaltruth

[Skwor]

And this is why we do not take articles like this seriously

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4399781/posts

[MrRelevant]

And folks wonder why in the world Trump wants these pieces of human garbage like this to stay out of the press room.

[Recompennation]

Same way they twist the other way on Trump, can’t stand them and theirs.

[Skwor]

And if you look up Axios bias rating you get hot garbage like this:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/axios/

“only leans left slightly”

All circular lies to support each other’s rabid ideology, one tells the lie, the others swear to the lie. Openly lying with pictures to support extreme left-wing politicians is extreme bias.
Clowns all of them.

[whitney69]

“And this is why we do not take articles like this seriously...’

I guess I don’t understand what you are saying. There are a a lot of people, me included, that shed blood and were permanently disabled fighting under that flag. Any time it is mistreated or used for a cheap scam I take offense to the action.

An investigation by KATU found cached photos on Google of Fai and several other speakers at the same podium with the USA flag upside down. The now-deleted photos link back to the Somali TV Minnesota Facebook page.

https://katu.com/news/local/katu-probes-alleged-deepfake-as-cached-images-show-upside-down-flag-behind-washington-county-chair-candidate-nafisa-fai

This is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 700 which is a federal statute that makes it a crime to knowingly mutilate, deface, physically defile, burn, trample, or place on the floor or ground any U.S. flag, carrying a penalty of a fine, up to one year in prison, or both. Everyone that allowed that video on the air should be liable. And in the article sited above the politician admitted she didn’t check the video to try to “get by”. Is she not responsible for it’s getting on the air to represent her if she could have flagged it?

wy69

[grobdriver]

Ha

"This video is unavailable right now."

[norwaypinesavage]

",Axios published a fake fact check claiming the video was “doctored” by AI and that, in reality, the flag was right side up.""

AI doesn't modify an image and then publish an article with the fake image, without being prompted by a human. It is Asios, not AI, that is responsible.

[Skwor]

Follow the link I provided in my initial response, it is a rebuttal to a previous poster by a Freeper who was using Axios as a source to further there TDS fever.

[Skwor]

there = their

[Libloather]

[whitney69]

“This video is unavailable right now.”

I just retried and opened up the video and it is a picture of a woman and a man in green vest to start with writing under it. I don’t know what the problem is. I can get it. It is a site from KATU channel 2 ABC.

wy69

[whitney69]

Used your link and it was dated 0ct 10th. The one I put on the boards was dated 10 days later after ABC ran an investigation. So which one was doctored, the original or the further investigation by a liberal source that determined it was upside down?

Here’s another writing on Oct 19th:

https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2026/10/19/deepfake-of-washington-county-candidate-goes-viral-nationwide/

Another is here from the News of Africa site:

https://www.facebook.com/newsofafrica/videos/united-states-oregon-politician-nafisa-fai-sparks-outrage-after-holding-minnesot/1465335332108239/

The video footage of the politician with an upside-down American flag originated from an online stream by Somali TV of Minnesota. They are in full damage control and are trying to lie to the public about the flag. I find it offensive and it is illegal by federal statutes.

wy69