Several pictures on my campaign website are clone paintings of photographs for the purpose of making these pictures look like paintings.
Technically speaking, these images do represent “altered footage of a real event that happened.” However, these alterations are so obvious and so photo-unrealistic that they are not intended to fool anybody.
Facebook states, “Advertisers don't need to disclose when media is digitally created or altered in ways that are inconsequential or immaterial to the claim, assertion or issue raised in the ad.”
According to Facebook, acceptable alterations do include image size adjusting, cropping an image, color correction, and image sharpening.
I consider artistic photo-unrealistic alterations of photographs to be a legitimate form of artistic expression and political expression – they do not constitute deception in any manner.
If anything, politics should have more artistic expression from its candidates.
