If your only experience with photography is a point and shoot camera or smartphone, go away.
If you claim to have experience with professional cameras and want to claim there are no converging lines when there is, go away.
If you're claiming there should be aberrations and simple google search for wide angle and fish eye lenses have plenty of examples with equal clarity, go away.
If you don't think they would publish a distorted image because it looks bad to you, go away.
If you think the shadow's are odd it's because you never bounced a speedlight or strobe off a wall or ceiling. That's why all your family photos have redeyes, no facial definition and harsh shadows.
It doesn't look fake, it looks like a heavily processed wide angle shot. I know more about photography than most of you. If that bothers you, tough shit. The real conspiracy is who keeps floating these batshit theories of it being fake? Is it an attempt to discredit their opposition?
Before the deluge of shooped picture comments learn how lens distortion works and how software corrects for it.
-Stuff in center, less distortion.
-Stuff near edge and closer, much larger.
edit:
Learn some basics about photography.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wide+angle+lens+distortion+correction
When you compensate for distortions with software it can look like this
https://imgur.com/Ztb1wfT
If your only experience with photography is a point and shoot camera or smartphone, go away.
If you claim to have experience with professional cameras and want to claim there are no converging lines when there is, go away.
If you're claiming there should be aberrations and simple google search for wide angle and fish eye lenses have plenty of examples with equal clarity, go away.
If you don't think they would publish a distorted image because it looks bad to you, go away.
If you think the shadow's are odd it's because you never bounced a speedlight or strobe off a wall or ceiling. That's why all your family photos have redeyes, no facial definition and harsh shadows.
It doesn't look fake, it looks like a heavily processed wide angle shot. I know more about photography than most of you. If that bothers you, tough shit. The real conspiracy is who keeps floating these batshit theories of it being fake? Is it an attempt to discredit their opposition?