Photo of Kate Middleton with her children after surgery is flagged as "manipulated" by fact-checking agencies.
"Photo shows inconsistency in the alignment of Princess Charlotte's left hand," says AP.
247 - A photo of Kate Middleton with her three children was published on Sunday morning (10) on the official Instagram profile of Kensington Palace, the residence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and is causing quite a stir. In January, the princess underwent abdominal surgery and needed to be hospitalized for 13 days. Since the procedure, Kate had not made any public appearances, which raised rumors about her state of health. The information is from G1.
Also on Sunday, international news agencies Reuters, Associated Press, and France Presse removed the image from their catalogs. They claim the photo may have been manipulated, indicating edits in some parts of the image that could have been made in Photoshop.
The Associated Press, one of the agencies that reproduced the content, released a statement saying:
"But the AP later removed the image [from its catalog] because, upon closer inspection, it appeared that the source had manipulated the image in a way that did not meet the AP's photographic standards. The photo shows an inconsistency in the alignment of Princess Charlotte's left hand."
The photo also shows a section of the staircase with a flaw, indicating editing.