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Related: About this forumJoe on 'cheap fake videos': Dems, Biden campaign will have to work harder to expose the lies - Morning Joe - MSNBC
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back on a series of recent videos of President Joe Biden as she called them "cheap fakes." The Morning Joe panel discusses the recent videos and how Democrats and the Biden campaign and White House should react. - Aired on 06/18/2024.
Walleye
(33,895 posts)Rhiannon12866
(216,726 posts)Along with those edited to show TFG waving to massive crowds - when in reality he was waving to an empty parking lot and the cheering crowd at a Bruce Springsteen concert was edited in...
Walleye
(33,895 posts)MagaSmash
(7,185 posts)Bluepinky
(2,307 posts)Its so discouraging, but I can understand why. When money is your god, youll do anything to accrue more. It appears that old adage is true
Money is the root of all evil.
Ill be seeing my MAGA sister this weekend, and the safe topics we can discuss without arguing is shrinking. Its impossible to counter her claims that Biden is demented when even the mainstream media promotes this viewpoint. I used to be able to say that Fox News and a few others lie and disinform to push their agenda, but what happens when all the media outlets do it? Its not just Fox anymore. And a lot of people dont question the accuracy of what theyre fed by the media.☹️😢
ihaveaquestion
(3,006 posts)Get as much real footage as possible of him doing his real job. Fill the time with interviews of real WH people doing what they do. Show how much gets done and how dedicated they are.
LetMyPeopleVote
(151,829 posts)The fact that "cheapfakes" exist is a problem. The fact that powerful Republicans and conservative media outlets disseminate the content makes it worse.
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/cheapfakes-get-indefensible-boost-powerful-gop-partisans-rcna157934
Of course, as these clips go viral, many of the people who watch them have no idea that theyve been deceived. Indeed, thats the point of the effort. NBC News reported this morning on the misleading G7 video:
Google recommended false versions of the story as top stories and the deceptive videos continued to accumulate millions of views on X. Copies of the videos were replayed on TikTok and YouTube with little context and zero indication that they were part of a concerted disinformation campaign. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, applied fact-checking labels to some posts but not to all.
Theres no great mystery as to the larger dynamic. Many of Bidens critics want to focus on his age, so they disseminate cheapfakes in the hopes of fooling people. Thanks to the way online platforms often work, the scam is effective and has the intended effect. Fact-checkers try to keep up, but its a losing battle in part because the avalanche of misleading videos is so intense, and in part because far more people will see the deceptive videos than the accurate reports that set the record straight.....
But theres a dimension to this that deserves special attention.
A separate NBC News report this week highlighted the fact that the Republican National Committee and major conservative media outlets have played a key role in blasting out the deceptive videos. Fox News personalities and the New York Post, not surprisingly, are among the most notable offenders. Donald Trump, of course, has engaged in the same tactics.
And thats the part of this that stands out for me. Those whove spent time online in recent years have come to recognize the benefit of being a cautious news consumer: Images are routinely photoshopped. AI is increasingly used to create deceptive content. Video clips are often taken out of context......
But therein lies the point: Biden didnt help promote or disseminate those misleading pictures. Neither did the Democratic National Committee or news outlets popular with Democratic voters. The tactics might be bipartisan, but theres a qualitative difference between how the parties are approaching and dealing with cheapfakes.
The line between the GOP, its media allies, and the right-wing fringe continues to blur to the point of non-existence