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[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago

I think you are stating that backwards.

You can definitely say that everything with mass has energy. And yeah the two are kind of interchangeable.

But that does not mean that a photon HAS mass. It just means that we can calculate how much mass its energy is equivalent to.