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Elon Musk Shares Kamala Harris Deepfake
Elon Musk shared an AI-altered video of Kamala Harris manipulated to make it sound like she spoke about President Joe Biden's "senility."
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Billionaire Elon Musk shared a deepfake video of Vice President Kamala Harris manipulated to make it sound like she spoke about President Joe Biden’s “senility” and that she does not “know the first thing about running the country.”
“I, Kamala Harris, am your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility,” the altered audio says in the video Musk posted to his account on X, formerly Twitter. The audio, which sounds like Harris but is not, goes on to say Harris was chosen “because I am the ultimate diversity hire” as “both a woman and a person of color.”
Musk did not disclose in his post that the video or audio had been manipulated, only writing, “This is amazing
” in the caption. According to The New York Times, the video was originally posted by X user @MrReaganUSA, who indicated in the post that the video was a “parody.” The altered version of the video parodies a Harris ad titled “We Choose Freedom.”X’s policies explicitly prohibit “synthetic, manipulated or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm.” As of Sunday morning, X had not appended a Community Note to the post. Community Notes are used by the platform to correct misinformation or misleading posts. At the time of this publication, the video had garnered nearly 118 million views.
In a statement obtained by The Times, the Harris campaign said, “The American people want the real freedom, opportunity and security Vice President Harris is offering; not the fake, manipulated lies of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.”
Reacting to the video, Alex Howard, a digital governance expert and the director of the Digital Democracy Project at the Demand Progress Education Fund, posted in response to Musk, “This is a violation of @X’s policies on synthetic media & misleading identities. Are you going to retroactively change them to allow violations in an election year?”
