Vulgar photoshop image of female MP appeared on Australian news channel's bulletin, what happened next?

The graphics department of a big news channel in Australia also did something similar when an ugly photoshopped image of a female MP was published on the news. Georgie was criticizing the government's decision to reject a ban on duck hunting. Along with his statement, a photograph of him was played on the bulletin show in which parts of his body were tampered with.

Recently, a deepfake video of actress Rashmika Mandanna was released which forced people to think about what can happen if technology falls into wrong hands. But it is also worth thinking that making such videos or images on women is not a new thing. If you open your social media, even today you will easily find such photoshopped images of big faces. But imagine if this happens on a TV news channel…

The graphics department of a big news channel in Australia also did something similar when an ugly photoshopped image of a female MP was published on the news. In this photo, the middle part of the body of the female MP was exposed in a wrong way. Besides, the chest of the woman MP has also been wrongly presented in the picture.

I endured a lot yesterday.

But having my body and outfit photoshopped by a media outlet was not on my bingo card.

Note the enlarged boobs and outfit to be made more revealing.

Can’t imagine this happening to a male MP.

What gives? pic.twitter.com/NhnkDRMidc

— Georgie Purcell (@georgievpurcell) January 29, 2024

What was the matter?

The photo of Georgie Purcell, the youngest MP of the Victorian Upper House, was tampered with. Georgie was criticizing the government's decision to reject a ban on duck hunting. Along with his statement, a photograph of him was played on the bulletin show in which parts of his body were tampered with. There was an uproar over this picture. Purcell posted his original and doctored photos together on social media to rebuke the news channel. Georgie said that what would have happened if this incident had happened to a male politician. This is a symbol of discrimination against women MPs in Australia.

News channel apologized

After the uproar over the picture, the news channel apologized and said that it was a mistake of Photoshop and Artificial Intelligence. Nine Melbourne's news director Hugh Neylon said in a statement: “Our graphics department commissioned an image of Georgie for this story, which we had to scale down to fit the parameters of our channel. During that process, Photoshop created an image that was not true to the original. This does not meet our editorial standards and for this we sincerely apologize to Ms Purcell.