Fact Check: No Evidence Sen. John Fetterman Has a Body Double

Two photos of Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, each dated years apart from the other, have been taken out of context by social media users to suggest that Fetterman has been replaced by an actor or “body double.” There is no evidence to support this claim. Differences in how Fetterman appears in the two photos can be attributed to the effect that different camera lenses and settings have on the image they capture.

The older photo of Fetterman, shown on the left in the post above, originally appeared in an article...