Kendall Jenner said a viral edited picture that appeared to show her holding a Black Lives Matter poster was not posted by her

• Kendall Jenner said in a tweet on Saturday that a picture appearing to show her holding a Black Lives Matter poster — without a congruous shadow behind her — was "photoshopped by someone."
• The image was shared widely on Twitter after Andru Edwards, a YouTube tech personality, shared what appeared to be a screenshot from a Facebook post.
• Insider could not independently verify the original source of the doctored image, but the unedited version of the picture was taken in November.

Kendall Jenner denied involvement in what she called a "photoshopped" version of an old picture of her that stirred controversy online.

The image showed Jenner wearing a black mask and holding a cardboard sign that said "Black Lives Matter." But her shadow on the concrete indicated that the sign had been edited into the picture and wasn't actually there in real life.

The edited picture circulated on social media after Andru Edwards, a YouTube tech creator and influencer, posted it on Twitter on Friday, writing, "What's missing from @KendallJenner's shadow?"

Edwards' picture was a screenshot of a Facebook post from a page called 20K, but he didn't take the screenshot himself, telling Insider that he saw the screenshot circulating on Facebook and Reddit. Insider could not find any record of such a page posting the image.

Spotting edited photos posted by the Kardashian/Jenner family — and celebrities in general — has become an internet pastime. At first, the implication in this case appeared to be that Jenner manipulated and posted the photo, but Edwards told Insider that he knew it was a fan edit. "Taking someone else's image and then editing it to make it look like they support (or disapprove of) a cause is pretty deceptive and takes away from anything that person may have said/done in the past," Edwards told Insider in a direct message on Twitter.

A Twitter user with the handle @monmon_jones replied to the tweet with the original image of Jenner. Based on Jenner's outfit and the car behind her, it appeared to have been taken in November when the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star spent a day racing cars with friends including Tyler, the Creator.

Jenner responded to the tweet on Saturday. "This is photoshopped by someone," she said. "I DID NOT post this."

Jenner last week shared a message of support for the Black Lives Matter movement and the police-brutality protests sparked by George Floyd's killing on May 25.

"I acknowledge my white privilege and promise I will continue to educate myself on how I can help," she said in an Instagram caption.

Jenner faced a related controversy over her appearance in a 2017 Pepsi commercial, in which the model left a photo shoot to join a cute boy at a protest before handing a soda to a police officer. Pepsi pulled the ad after a massive backlash on social media and criticism that the ad trivialized the fight for an end to police brutality in the US.

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