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People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good

David Gilbert

created: Jan. 8, 2026, 4:33 p.m. | updated: Jan. 12, 2026, 7:16 p.m.

In the hours after a masked federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, social media users have been sharing AI-altered images they falsely claim “unmask” the officer, revealing their real identity. The agent was later identified by Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin as an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer. WIRED reviewed multiple AI-altered images of the unmasked agent shared on every mainstream social media platform, including X, Facebook, Threads, Instagram, BlueSky, and TikTok. “We need his name,” Claude Taylor, the founder of anti-Trump Mad Dog PAC, wrote in a post on X featuring an AI-altered image of the agent. On Threads, an account called “Influencer_Queeen” posted an AI-altered image of the agent and wrote: “Let's get his address.

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