first revealed by the industry newsletter FTVLive<\/a>, was later deleted.<\/p>\nGulf Coast News anchor Peter Busch defended the authenticity of a tornado photo after a rival TV meteorologist publicly labeled it fake. Facebook \/ Peter Busch<\/p>\n
The image shows what appears to be a narrow tornado funnel extending from a dark, rotating storm cloud toward the ground above a busy intersection lined with traffic lights, utility lines and passing vehicles.<\/p>\n
The post prompted a response from Gulf Coast News anchor Peter Busch, who had previously shared the same image.<\/p>\n
WINK News meteorologist Lauren Kreidler deleted a Facebook post after publicly claiming a rival station\u2019s tornado photo was not real. Facebook \/ Weather With Lauren \u2013 Meteorologist Lauren Kreidler<\/p>\n
Busch said some viewers had suggested the photo was AI-generated and revealed that \u201ca meteorologist from another station even briefly posted on her page that it was fake, but then she deleted her post.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the interest of journalistic transparency, I\u2019d like to explain to you how we determined that the photo is legitimate,\u201d Busch wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
According to Busch, the National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado briefly touched down near Cape Coral\u2019s Southwest 27th Street shortly after 4 p.m. on Friday \u2014 matching the reported time and location of the image.<\/p>\n
Peter Busch said the National Weather Service confirmed the tornado touchdown and that his station verified the image before sharing it.<\/p>\n
Lauren Kreidler\u2019s now-deleted Facebook post labeled the tornado image \u201cNOT A REAL PICTURE.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that the person who submitted the photo later gave an on-camera interview with Gulf Coast News.<\/p>\n
Busch also said the station ran the image through AI-detection software, which \u201cconcluded that nothing in the image suggests it was manipulated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is healthy for us to be skeptical of images in this age of artificial intelligence,\u201d Busch wrote. \u201cWe will always do our best to make sure that what we\u2019re showing you is the real deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Post has sought comment from Kreidler and Busch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Southwest Florida TV weather personality deleted a social media post after publicly accusing a rival station of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,14088,28,19241,18597,221],"class_list":["post-340720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-extreme-weather","tag-florida","tag-media","tag-tornadoes","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}