{"id":250238,"date":"2026-04-04T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=250238"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:41:49","slug":"female-politician-expelled-from-party-over-edited-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/250238\/","title":{"rendered":"Female politician expelled from party over edited photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A woman has been expelled from a political party in the Netherlands for editing her photo, Oddity Central reports.<\/p>\n<p>A scandal has erupted in Rotterdam around 59-year-old city councilor Patricia Reichman, who used AI to edit her official photograph.<\/p>\n<p>The politician, representing the local Leefbaar Rotterdam party, published an image in which she appeared significantly younger than her actual age.<\/p>\n<p>Reichman herself claimed that she had only &ldquo;improved the image quality&rdquo; using an online tool. According to her, the changes in her appearance were due to medication, and the photo does in fact depict her.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, criticism against her intensified. The party acknowledged that the image had been substantially altered and did not reflect reality. The leadership stated that this constituted a breach of trust and demanded that she resign.<\/p>\n<p>Reichman refused to step down voluntarily, after which the party decided to expel her.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been expelled from a political party in the Netherlands for editing her photo, Oddity Central reports. A scandal has erupted in Rotterdam around 59-year-old city councilor Patricia Reichman, who used AI to edit her official photograph. The politician, representing the local Leefbaar Rotterdam party, published an image in which she appeared significantly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":250195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,98,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-en","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250239,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250238\/revisions\/250239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}