Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) reposted on social media a deepfake video that falsely depicted Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) dancing off a mall escalator carrying a T-shirt emblazoned with the message “Fuck Trump” to the Pussycat Dolls’ hit “Don’t Cha.”
“In the event you had been on the mall together with your youngsters and this man rolled down the escalator, you’ll name the cops and get him banned,” Moore wrote on X, the Elon Musk-owned platform previously known as Twitter.
The submit (see it here) was swiftly hit with a neighborhood word clarifying it was pretend. The one who seems to have initially shared the video on-line claimed to have “swapped the face.”
Moore could have recognized the video was phony when he shared it.
And it may have been some type of taunting commentary on Walz, who was Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ operating mate within the 2024 presidential election in opposition to Republicans Donald Trump and JD Vance, and has been a fierce critic of the present White Home.
However, with Moore not responding to being known as out over the clip, social media customers mercilessly mocked the lawmaker for showing to fall for it.
“‘Days since a congressman fell for an AI video’ signal set again to zero,” Semafor’s Dave Weigel responded.
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