Doctored campaign video featuring US vice-president reposted by Tesla chief executive watched 128m times
Kamala Harris’s election campaign has accused Elon Musk of spreading “manipulated lies” after the Tesla chief executive posted a doctored video featuring the vice-president on his X account.
Musk reposted a manipulated Harris campaign video on Friday evening in which a fake Harris voiceover says: “I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire,” and that anyone who criticises her is “both sexist and racist”.
The video has been viewed 128m times on Musk’s account after the world’s richest man posted it with the words “this is amazing” followed by a laughing emoji. Musk owns X, which he rebranded from Twitter last year.
Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat senator, accused Musk of violating the platform’s guidelines. According to X’s synthetic and manipulated media policy, users are barred from sharing “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm” although allowances are made for satire provided it does not “cause significant confusion about the authenticity of the media”.
Why do we have to say “accused” when he did it in public?
Because he’s a fragile, litigious, snowflake of a billionaire that cannot even contemplate that anything he does is wrong, let alone illegal.
The Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, posted on X on Sunday evening that the manipulated Harris video should be “illegal” and that he would soon sign a bill banning such media, in apparent reference to a proposal supported by California lawmakers to ban “materially deceptive” election deepfakes.
I don’t know why they’re still on Twitter
If everyone except the right-wing trolls leave, then the whole platform dies quickly.
I don’t know why they’re still on Twitter
Presumably lack of viable mainstream alternative. Looking at Musk management there won’t be a Twitter in a few years though.
Well an alternative won’t appear as long as people are still sheltering in the corpse of Twitter. I think Mastadon and Blue Sky together will end up holding that torch.
Well an alternative won’t appear as long as people are still sheltering in the corpse of Twitter
I am not disagreeing with you - I am not using twitter for ages, even before Musk due to their stance on the genocide of Palestinians. I can however see why the politicians do.
So why can’t we call this what it is.
An attempt at election interference and throw his ass in prison for treason. For such a high profile person it should be considered no less.
I feel like being witnessed posting from his own personal account with no remorse or claim of account hijacking warrants a bit more of a strongly worded statement than merely “accused”.
No shit…he called a guy trying to save folks in a cave a pedo because his ego was offended.
The video is possibly illegal in several states https://www.citizen.org/article/tracker-legislation-on-deepfakes-in-elections/
Edit maybe there should be more election deepfakes so that we’ll finally have legislation outlawing this behavior
According to X’s synthetic and manipulated media policy
I honestly thought that they were describing the POLICY as synthetic and manipulated.
You know, because interpretation and enforcement is entirely dependent on whether you agree with Apartheid Emerald Boy on everything…
Twitter is donald’s « Truth » v2
Elon? Lying? For his own benefit? No way
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