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.”
“If you happen to have been on the mall along with your children and this man rolled down the escalator, you’d 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 group word clarifying it was faux. The one who seems to have initially shared the video on-line claimed to have “swapped the face.”
Moore might have recognized the video was phony when he shared it.
And it may have been some form of taunting commentary on Walz, who was Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ working 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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