Deepfake Joe Biden threatens to defund US police
A video shared by US Republican Congressman Steve Scalise of US President candidate Joe Biden apparently threatening to defund the police in a discussion with healthcare activist Ady Barkan has been debunked as a deepfake. The video was found to have been manipulated by splicing in the words ' for police' during a quote from Barkan from an original video of an interview between Barkan and Joe Biden that was published by NowThis News . Under pressure from Barkan and others, Scalise later deleted the faked video. Twitter had labelled the video as manipulated. The incident was one in a number of deepfakes released during the 2020 US Presidential election that were seen likely to jeopardise US political processes and democracy. Deepfake Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown Documents 📃 Ady Barkan/Joe Biden police reform discussion X/Twitter. Synthetic and manipulated media policy Operator: Steve Scalise Develope r: Steve Scalise Country: USA Sector: Politics Purpose: Damage reputation Technology: Deepfake - video, audio; Machine learning Issue: Ethics/values; Mis/disinformation; Transparency
- Date it happened
- 2020-08-01
- Organisation involved
- Steve Scalise
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