In the swirling world of celebrity endorsements and digital manipulation, actress Sydney Sweeney’s recent American Eagle jeans campaign has morphed from a simple fashion spot into a flashpoint for debates on beauty standards, politics, and artificial intelligence. The ad, which features Sweeney touting “great jeans” in a playful pun on genetics, initially drew ire for allegedly echoing eugenics rhetoric, with critics on social media platforms like X labeling it as subtle propaganda for idealized Aryan beauty norms. What began as online backlash quickly escalated when a fabricated video surfaced, purporting to show U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar lambasting Sweeney and tying...