Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumThe growing threat of political 'deepfakes'
On the first day of 2020, a video of former Vice President Joe Biden circulated on Twitter. It appeared to show the presidential candidate agreeing with GOP proposals to cut Social Security benefits, a hot-button issue for Democratic primary voters.
Weeks after the video was posted by a Sanders campaign adviser, Biden publicly accused rival Bernie Sanderss campaign of pushing around a deceptively edited video. PolitiFact concluded that the video clip was taken out of context to create a false impression Biden was actually opposing cuts but the footage was not faked or altered.
PolitiFact looked at it and they doctored the photo, they doctored the piece and its acknowledged that its a fake, Biden said Saturday about the video clip, excerpted from a speech at the Brookings Institution in April 2018.
Its simply a lie, Biden said. This is a doctored tape.
The larger point, aside from the semantic difference between a misleading tape and a doctored one, is the growing risk of so-called deepfakes photos or video created or undetectably altered by technology to spread disinformation and influence elections.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
empedocles
(15,751 posts)[That video just has to circulate widely]
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Thanks!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
empedocles
(15,751 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
empedocles
(15,751 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
defacto7
(13,485 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden