Donald Trump joins RT as anchor deepfake

A deepfake video advert of then US president Donald Trump working after the 2020 US presidential elections for Russian government-funded broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today ) reinforced rumours that he was Vladimir Putin's stooge and that Russia had been interfering in US politics. The video interperses real clips of Trump denigrating CNN and lavishing praise on 'amazing' Russia with deepfake versions of him holding up a RT contract for USD 1,000,000,000 and saying 'It was a very nice offer from President Putin.' Trump also sang Russian rock song 'Peremen', which had been adopted by anti-government protestors in Belarus. The video was published by RT at the same time as The Washington Post reported that the CIA believed Putin tried to undermine Joe Biden's candidacy in a bid to help Trump secure re-election. 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 📃 RT (2020) . Making news not faking news: Watch Deepfake Donald Trump on his first day working at RT Operator: RT News Developer: RT News Country: USA; Russia Sector: Politics Purpose: Satirise/parody Technology: Deepfake - image; Machine learning Issue: Mis/disinformation; Ethics/values Transparency: Investigations, assessments, audits 🧐 Deepfaked. Donald Trump works as broadcast journalist in RT News deepfake

Date it happened

2020-09-01

Organisation involved

RT News

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