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Elon Musk shares manipulated Harris video, in seeming violation of X’s policies (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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The billionaire owner of the social media platform X reposted a video that mimics Vice President Kamala Harris’s voice, without disclosing that it had been altered.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has waded into one of the thorniest issues facing U.S. politics: deepfake videos.

On Friday night, Mr. Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X, reposted an edited campaign video for Vice President Kamala Harris that appears to have been digitally manipulated to change the spot’s voice-over in a deceptive manner.

The video mimics Ms. Harris’s voice, but instead of using her words from the original ad, it has the vice president saying that President Biden is senile, that she does not “know the first thing about running the country” and that, as a woman and a person of color, she is the “ultimate diversity hire.”

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Pro-democracy groups have raised increasingly urgent alarms about deepfakes, a broad term for digital content that employs artificial intelligence and other technology to create audio, video or images that spread false information and could influence voter behavior.

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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 109 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Elon Musk openly flouting the rules of the platform he owns to knowingly share misinformation to disparage a woman he doesn't like...

Tell me Elon is a right wing shill without telling me he's a right-wing shill

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Watch- he'll say it was one of his many "hilarious" jokes and his sycophants with circle the wagons and the press will be worried about their Twitter accounts and then this will be forgotten until the next time.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Rules for thee but not for me.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

But he's not even remotely subtle about being a right-wing shill. He's loud and proud of it.