{"id":407832,"date":"2026-02-04T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407832\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:14:08","slug":"labour-group-deletes-epstein-and-farage-image-and-says-it-was-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/407832\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour group deletes Epstein and Farage image and says it was AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wrexham Labour Party posted the picture attempting to link the Reform leader to the disgraced financier, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was convicted for soliciting prostitution from a 14-year-old girl a decade earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the BBC asked Welsh Labour where the Wrexham group got the image, the picture was deleted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Wales understands Welsh Labour asked the individuals who operate the account to delete the image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Welsh Labour spokesperson said: &#8220;The photo was posted from a volunteer-run account run by local members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The post was taken down when they realised it was an AI-generated image.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wrexham Labour Party posted the picture attempting to link the Reform leader to the disgraced financier, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-407832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}