Chris Cuomo Issues Non-Apology To AOC About Deepfake Video

NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo fell for an apparent deepfake video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday, delivered solely a half-hearted apology for attacking her over it — after which demanded she do higher.

The pretend footage appeared to indicate Ocasio-Cortez on the ground of the U.S. Home condemning American Eagle for its new denims marketing campaign, by which actor Sydney Sweeney notes genes decide an individual’s hair colour and character earlier than stating, “My denims are blue.”

Some critics consider the advert promotes white supremacy (and lots of Republicans are now lauding it in response). Cuomo was satisfied that Ocasio-Cortez truly spoke about masturbation, “slave daddy oppressors” and Sweeney’s breasts within the Home chamber, because the fabricated video suggests.

Ocasio-Cortez was fast to debunk the clearly pretend footage.

The Democratic congresswoman additionally roasted Cuomo within the course of, writing in a direct reply to him Wednesday: “It is a deepfake dude. Please use your vital considering expertise. At this level you’re simply reposting Fb memes and calling it journalism.”

“I’m going to imagine you have been attempting to answer to me and burped this tweet into the ether as an alternative,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a post quoting Cuomo’s. “You appear to battle with figuring out the best way to write an apology. Do you want assist? Possibly you must name somebody.”

The latter remark was presumably a dig at his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was accused of sexual harassment by a number of ladies in 2021 after which apologized for making folks “uncomfortable.” He resigned later that 12 months after an investigation by the state lawyer common.

“I do battle … to grasp why you received’t inform hamas to give up … you might have ducked it repeatedly … do you apologize for that?” Chris Cuomo responded Wednesday night. “Way more worthy of reply — and offensive — than an errant tweet, no?”

Cuomo issued a grudging apology to Ocasio-Cortez on his NewsNation show Wednesday, by which he as soon as once more argued that her rant within the pretend video “did appear to be one thing she would say” — and tried to color her as a secret Hamas sympathizer.