The claim: Ohio Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel photoshopped his face on a Black soldier's body in a campaign ad. Our rating: False ❌ There's no evidence the photo used in his ad was manipulated.
USA TODAY reached out to Occupy Democrats and social media users who shared the claim for comment.Scott Guthrie, Mandel's campaign spokesperson, told USA TODAY in an email that Mandel's head was not edited onto a Black soldier's body.
The original 18-year-old photo Guthrie provided to USA TODAY shows Mandel's hands match his skin tone., which darkens the edges of an image, was applied to the photo to make Mandel's website address stand out at the bottom. "As an unusual coincidence, Josh's hands got a little darker," Davis said."So all this malarkey about photoshopping the image ... nobody legit in my business does anything like that." “It's obvious Josh's head was not photoshopped," Guthrie said., a digital forensics expert at the University of Buffalo, told USA TODAY in an email that the original photo is too low-quality to make a reliable analysis.
"It is unlikely to me that this image was a result of photoshop editing, at least there is no clear clue suggesting ," Lyu said.Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that Mandel photoshopped his face on a Black soldier's body in a campaign ad.There's no evidence the photo used in his ad was manipulated. A vignette effect darkened Mandel's hands in the photo.
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