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January 8, 2026, 11:44 PM EST. An eyewitness video shows a masked ICE agent who shot Renee Good. Social media users circulated an unmasked version generated by xAI's Grok after a prompt to 'unmask' the agent. NPR published both images to illustrate how AI can manipulate real news footage, while experts warn that AI-powered enhancement can hallucinate facial details and distort biometric identification. The spread fueled a mistaken identity of people named Steve Grove-one a Missouri gun shop owner, the other a Minnesota Star Tribune publisher-sparking harassment and what outlets call a coordinated disinformation campaign. Minnesota outlets cautioned readers that the agent's identity remains unverified. Hany Farid (UC Berkeley) emphasizes that such images may look clear but do not reflect reality.