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I own many 70mm film photos the Earth and/or the moon. Many are first generation duplicates and a couple purport to be original photos from Apollo 10 and 11, given that they aren’t color corrected for the strong UV tint like my dups are I’m inclined to believe the claim though the auction went unnoticed and I didn’t pay excessive money for them (early on Nasa was not especially smart about saving this stuff and quite a bit of it entered the private market. My dad and a friend of his used to dumpster dive at Johnson Space Center and you would not believe the stuff they found when he was growing up including Saturn V blueprints on micro-fische, unfortunately his friend ended up with those and they eventually lost touch). I can answer the premise question of the song pretty easily, reason most photos of the Earth are fake is that it is extremely difficult to get the full Earth (in the sense of a full moon) on one shot for one of two reasons, and images of the full Earth are, for some reason desirable for marketing and media purposes. The first reason is that most recent spacecraft are too close to capture it all at once. The second applies mostly to Apollo, but also deep space probes and any satellites in very high orbit, in that a spacecraft or satellite in high orbit will usually have part of the Earth in shadow. I believe there’s a fairly recent satellite that far enough out to get a “full Earth” photo now, but only occasionally, and it’s launch (particularly, it’s first full Earth photo) was a very big deal. They definitely didn’t want to launch an Apollo mission when the Earth is full from the direction of the moon because it meant that the near side on the moon where the astronauts could land and communicate with Earth and still be able to see at the same time. That said, I never got the marketing/media importance of showing a full side of the Earth at once... maybe because the media are globalists and a full side of the Earth has some dumb symbolic meaning about inclusiveness. However, there are dozens of legit Apollo photos of a waxing or waning Earth where roughly half of the side of Earth that is facing the camera is in shadow.

Oh also, legit photos of the Earth tend to have a crapload of cloud cover, which probably also doesn’t create a whole lot of touchy-feely emotions about “global interconnectedness” compared to a comparatively few appropriately placed wisps, that don’t obscure the places in
Earth most cemented in liberals’ hearts and minds, they especially love their Europe-Africa-Middle East shots in recent decades, while in the past Americans preferred to see the good ol’ USA front and center.