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Doctored campaign video featuring US vice-president reposted by Tesla chief executive watched 128m times

Kamala Harris’s election campaign has accused Elon Musk of spreading “manipulated lies” after the Tesla chief executive posted a doctored video featuring the vice-president on his X account.

Musk reposted a manipulated Harris campaign video on Friday evening in which a fake Harris voiceover says: “I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire,” and that anyone who criticises her is “both sexist and racist”.

The video has been viewed 128m times on Musk’s account after the world’s richest man posted it with the words “this is amazing” followed by a laughing emoji. Musk owns X, which he rebranded from Twitter last year.

Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat senator, accused Musk of violating the platform’s guidelines. According to X’s synthetic and manipulated media policy, users are barred from sharing “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm” although allowances are made for satire provided it does not “cause significant confusion about the authenticity of the media”.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 87 points 3 months ago

i long for the day i never hear about musk or twitter ever again

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 68 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why do we have to say “accused” when he did it in public?

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Because he's a fragile, litigious, snowflake of a billionaire that cannot even contemplate that anything he does is wrong, let alone illegal.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You and I don't have to say it but journalist standards are different. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standards

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thanks for that

Reporters are expected to be as accurate as possible given the time allotted to story preparation and the space available and to seek reliable sources. Properly using their sources and using accurate quoting and use of words from interview or conversation.[19]

If you saw where he published it on the website that he owns, the most accurate description would be to say he did it. The average person would understand the true level of uncertainty that way. Whereas if you use uncertainty in your description you are, in fact, misinforming the reader.

Reporting the truth is almost never libel,[23] which makes accuracy very important.

Just saying

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 64 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, posted on X on Sunday evening that the manipulated Harris video should be “illegal” and that he would soon sign a bill banning such media, in apparent reference to a proposal supported by California lawmakers to ban “materially deceptive” election deepfakes.

I don't know why they're still on Twitter

If everyone except the right-wing trolls leave, then the whole platform dies quickly.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why they're still on Twitter

Presumably lack of viable mainstream alternative. Looking at Musk management there won't be a Twitter in a few years though.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well an alternative won't appear as long as people are still sheltering in the corpse of Twitter. I think Mastadon and Blue Sky together will end up holding that torch.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Well an alternative won't appear as long as people are still sheltering in the corpse of Twitter

I am not disagreeing with you - I am not using twitter for ages, even before Musk due to their stance on the genocide of Palestinians. I can however see why the politicians do.

[–] skizzles@lemmy.ml 46 points 3 months ago

So why can't we call this what it is.

An attempt at election interference and throw his ass in prison for treason. For such a high profile person it should be considered no less.

[–] 242@lemmy.cafe 35 points 3 months ago

“I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire,”

In truth it's lame ass white dudes who are the kids of rich men who benefit from the system and are handed positions way above their level. Black women have to work their asses off to even get their foot in the door. This "diversity hire" narrative is massive projection. Musk was born on third base and got walked in for the score.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

No shit...he called a guy trying to save folks in a cave a pedo because his ego was offended.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 months ago

I feel like being witnessed posting from his own personal account with no remorse or claim of account hijacking warrants a bit more of a strongly worded statement than merely "accused".

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The video is possibly illegal in several states https://www.citizen.org/article/tracker-legislation-on-deepfakes-in-elections/

Edit maybe there should be more election deepfakes so that we’ll finally have legislation outlawing this behavior

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

According to X’s synthetic and manipulated media policy

I honestly thought that they were describing the POLICY as synthetic and manipulated.

You know, because interpretation and enforcement is entirely dependent on whether you agree with Apartheid Emerald Boy on everything..

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago
[–] paw 6 points 3 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/post/18539657

In the context of him sharing a fake video. 🤦‍♀️

[–] rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Elon? Lying? For his own benefit? No way

[–] samokosik@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Twitter is donald’s « Truth » v2

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

At least truth social is(forced to be) open source

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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[–] N0body@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

In his defense, Elon both owns the platform and is a giant manbaby throwing a neverending tantrum at even the thought of rules applying to him.