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A far right media personality used a deepfake image of former president Donald J. Trump pictured with Black women. The image being spread across social media shows how desperate the Republicans, Israel, Russia and Trump are in trying to win.
Dozens of fake, artificial intelligence-generated photos showing Donald Trump with Black people are being spread by his supporters, according to a new investigation.
BBC Panorama reported that the images appear to be created by supporters themselves. There is no evidence tying the photos to Trump’s campaign.
One photo was created by the Florida-based conservative radio show host Mark Kaye.
Republicans seizing on using propaganda tools to sway the election. They are trying to use the poster child of "white privilege" to sway Black voters into believing he is a victim of an unjust political system. They are trying equate Trump's criminal charges to Blacks being treated unfairly by the U.S. Justice System.
Let me tell you this once again.
Trump failed Black America through his reactions to civil unrest during the George Floyd protests and the coronavirus pandemic. Those two incidents as well as the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are the reasons why Trump should never be in office again.
He failed and was rejected for it.
The latest AI-generated media to emerge show Trump posing on a porch with Black men. Captions shared on social media falsely stated that Trump stopped his motorcade to pose. The BBC noted that some commenters online pointed out that the photos were fake, but many others were convinced they were real.
A taxi driver in Atlanta named Douglas told the outlet that he initially believed one of the photos was real, and that it bolstered his view that Trump was supportive of the Black community.
“Well, that’s the thing about social media. It’s so easy to fool people,” he said.
The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, Cliff Albright, said the AI-generated photos appear to be part of a resurgence of disinformation tactics used in the 2020 election targeted toward the Black community.
“There have been documented attempts to target disinformation to black communities again, especially younger black voters,” Albright told the BBC.
A recent NYTimes and Siena College poll found only 71% of Black voters in six key swing states would vote for Biden, compared with 92% in 2020. Make America Great Again Inc, the main political action committee backing Trump, is set to launch an advertising campaign this week aimed at Black voters in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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