I just saw this interesting post by u/ImGumbyDammit about the latest twist in the Uvalde psy-op:

https://greatawakening.win/p/15IEcWe5At/a-tdwin-postlol-please-be-real-p/c/?sort=new

Well, forgive me, but these kinds of images tend to crop up a lot around here and they are usually PhotoShopped - my theory is that the so-called "fact checking" websites plant these images on spicy communities, we sometimes fall for it, and they later publish an article proving the image is fake in order to undermine our credibility.

I figured that's what's happening here, but you know what? If this photo of Alves was manipulated, I'm having trouble finding the original. Here's a reverse Google search of "visually similar images" and there is no evidence of photo manipulation:

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZis4MoU2OKm0VDaaQsmRB-ONhQkbUhdXNB6bDhNDnU8FnwlT_1Ya-l5yhpI4DdUjvSi0RiZKYJ4XOiR7kEHTyNAeGsncNz6A39c6j-d1A8fIGrg_1xpHty4ewKfg0bvpJ_15DAT0FcPjz9OHQMlMvvRw_1wKlMBgjvn1pncQ7G8g2vvJOHuIuQbWA0fgENqkLXaXlfI8aNu5vQ3854yitMyrLp0FFAxB2mGHguwtraQTsKVt9ao7jNivk3FiPsRyriSuONvIqGhBqt_1hT0Mf_1usB8kwLkOaiKp6oJtiB-WqP3w73AVkdPDkAi0Zkr6lq7N1-yWOYiS1O6Raqu_1hwTRk29Ebu0c-VKvgqoPKcgqnZHBYtZQk-DdXq-WhZWOfo8WqvpXbfdUZ6NOWe3KdKmjtqwT5UCafcFg

In fact, there are even high resolution versions of this image which would be RARE for a photoshop:

https://i.ibb.co/gjGLJwg/image.png

Manipulated photos tend to be shared in low resolution with fuzzy details in order to hide the fact that manipulation took place - this is why political news footage tends to look so much worse than, say, some random guy making a YouTube video. It's on purpose. There's all kinds of trickery afoot in political news media.

Anyway, this thing seems legit, but I wanted to post the results of my research in case they (fact-checking websites) somehow procure evidence later on debunking the image. Such evidence does not seem to exist right now.