{"id":420248,"date":"2026-05-04T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=420248"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:37:51","slug":"fake-gucci-image-of-minister-wells-fuels-expenses-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=420248","title":{"rendered":"Fake Gucci Image of Minister Wells Fuels Expenses Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The manipulated image, posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Psychokanga\">@Psychokanga<\/a>, depicted Wells in a $5000 jacket, gold chains, and luxury bag, quickly gaining over 1,500 likes with jabs at Labor as out of touch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Users like finance commentator John Hempton exposed it as AI-generated or altered, with the original October 2025 photo showing her in a plain white blazer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It surfaced during ongoing controversy over her taxpayer-funded trips, including a $190,000 New York visit and a $1,750 Paris meal, which she referred to the expenses watchdog in December 2025 while defending compliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users like finance commentator John Hempton exposed it as AI-generated or altered, with the original October 2025 photo showing her in a plain white blazer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":327668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,273,35],"tags":[18947,15313],"class_list":["post-420248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-anika-smells","tag-anika-wells"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420251,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420248\/revisions\/420251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/327668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}