An image can be made. A claim still needs evidence.

An artist can build a city that never existed. A teacher can use a sample interface to explain a process. Neither image asks a viewer to trust a real person's credentials. Trouble begins when an edited image is separated from its context and offered as proof of something it cannot establish.

Look at what accompanies the image: the caption, the account that shared it, and the decision being requested. In The Face in the Rain, every visible second of a clip is real within the story. The cut is what misleads the crowd.