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Third, consider truth and context. Political images often omit essential facts. Did the subjects lose by narrow margins or in crowded fields? Were the results influenced by gerrymandering, turnout anomalies, or unique local issues? Was the language in the post generated by a parody account or an official campaign organ? Without context, such image-text pairings can mislead viewers who rely on visual cues and headlines rather than primary reporting. The spread of such images contributes to information fragmentation: different audiences receive entirely different narratives about the same events, each confirmed by the images that align with their biases.