A yearbook photograph of Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential contender Ron DeSantis has been digitally altered to include a fabricated quote attributed to him. DeSantis, but the yearbook does not include any quote below his portrait, said a spokesperson for Pinellas County Schools, which includes DeSantis’s alma mater Dunedin High School. An earlier iteration of DeSantis’s yearbook photo posted on Reddit on April 14, 2023 does not include any quote. DeSantis graduated from Dunedin High School in 1997, according to Florida news reports (youtu.be/UH-dZ-PgJeM?t=105), (here). Sean Clark, director of strategic communications at Pinellas County Schools, said in an email that the photo is from the Dunedin High School yearbook, “however there is no quote within the yearbook photo beneath Governor DeSantis’s photo nor any other student within the yearbook”.

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