India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

Delhi Police arrested the protesting Indian women wrestlers.

Various social media handles of IT cell of ruling party shared morphed picture of protesters to show that they were smiling in the police van.

https://twitter.com/SakshiMalik/status/1662729269532065792

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That is getting real freaking dystopian. Sure, we would have been able to do this before, and the Soviet Union did a ton of photo editing. But doing this particular edit must have been so easy. No cost at all, no mental barrier. You would almost think 'why bother'. And before anyone says 'yeah, but the truth came out'. Well, we saw it, but how many of the particular audience of whatever that outlet was will never see the original photo and will never question the narrative they were sold?

> Verified account @wokeflix_ tweeted the same image in a meme

> Verified account @randomsena tweeted the same image

> Another verified account, @RealAtulsay, tweeted the same image

Isn't "Verified" on Twitter just a subscription now, meaning it's just that these people have given Twitter money? Why it matters (in a journalistic sense) who has paid Twitter or not? And why are only some of the verified accounts mentioned as verified accounts, while others are verified but not mentioned as verified?

Such a weird article overall.