Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013. Tensions between he and the newsroon have continued; in 2024 and 2025, multiple personnel resigned over the paper's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris and editorial changes advanced by Bezos.
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Washington Post illustration; Midjourney/Mark Kaye
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On Monday, a BBC investigation highlighted what it called an emerging disinformation trend in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign: fake, apparently AI-generated images purporting to show Donald Trump posing with Black people.
The story cited several images shared on X, Facebook and other platforms, suggesting they were aimed at influencing Black voters to support Trump. There was no evidence, however, that the Trump campaign was involved; at least one of the images the story cited was first shared by an obvious parody account, though other accounts later shared it without indicating it was fake. It’s also unclear just how far and wide the images spread, or how many people were deceived by them.
Mark Kaye, a conservative radio and TV host based in Florida, created one of the images referenced in the story, an image of a smiling Trump with his arms around smiling Black women. Kaye told The Technology 202 that he created the image using the AI image tool Midjourney to illustrate a Nov. 29 post about Trump’s growing support among Black voters, knowing that posts with images tend to do better on social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and X than those without. He said the image took him “30 seconds” to create.