#Cheapfakes over #deepfakes:
Because the best way to lie is to not tell the whole truth.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6572378

Is Joe Rogan obsessed with Canada?

Videos of podcaster Joe Rogan commenting on clips of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went viral — but they’re not real. They’re “cheapfakes” that splice together authentic videos in a misleading way. Here’s how to spot them. 

CBC
“ Before there were #deepfakes , there were #cheapfakes ; now there are both. social media was suddenly awash in videos pushed by unscrupulous Republican accounts edited to play up stereotypes about Pres.Joe Biden's age. Media outlets, too, promoted the clips, with the New York Post recently claiming to have footage showing Biden wandering off in a daze during the G7 summit in Italy. In reality, Biden was congratulating a skydiver who had just landed. “ https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fake-video-joe-biden-g7-italy-rcna157767
Did you fall for this fake video of Joe Biden at the G7 in Italy?

Did you believe the videos and memes pushed by Republican accounts edited to make President Joe Biden look old? The New York Post certainly hopes you did.

MSNBC

White House Attacks “Cheap Fake” Joe Biden Videos As They Spread Across Right Wing Media And Parrot Donald Trump’s Talking Points (Analysis)
#News #Politics #2024campaign #Cheapfakes #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #JimmyKimmel #JoeBiden #KarineJeanPierre

https://deadline.com/2024/06/biden-trump-cheap-fake-videos-1235976291/

White House Attacks “Cheap Fake” Joe Biden Videos As They Spread Across Right Wing Media And Parrot Donald Trump’s Talking Points (Analysis)

The videos parrot Donald Trump's talking points.

Deadline

"The use of these clips is an especially pernicious couple of examples of manipulated video — what we label “isolation” under our guide to manipulated video — because it’s intended to create a false narrative that doesn’t reflect the event as it occurred. The RNC and its avid followers in the conservative media earn Four Pinocchios."

They're lying to us. And have so little self-respect that we willingly lap up the lies.

ConvictedFelonTrump #Biden #Republicans #cheapfakes
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A case in point: a video clip the RNC has been circulating, making it appear Biden wandered off in a daze at the G7, when — if you watch the actual, undoctored video footage of which the RNC has snipped a deceptive, doctored piece — he's walking over to chat with a parachutist.

As Washington Post writes (the link in /1 is a gift link from Marcie Owens),

#ConvictedFelonTrump #Biden #Republicans #cheapfakes
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Analysis | ‘Cheapfake’ Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead

No, the president didn’t wander off. He didn’t freeze either.

Washington Post

How #Republicans used #CheapFakes to attack #Biden in 24hrs

#POTUS, who at 81 is decades younger than the vets he honored during Thurs’s D-Day commemoration, nonetheless found his age & fitness in the spotlight as selectively #edited clips of him circulated online.

D-Day’s 80th quickly became the latest example of the fast spread of #manipulated videos, highlighting the use of #misinformation [ #disinformation ] & #ConspiracyTheories in politics.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/11/biden-videos-republicans-cheap-fake-d-day/

How Republicans used misleading videos to attack Biden in a 24-hour period

Such deceptively edited videos, known as “cheap fakes,” have become staples of Republican attacks against President Biden.

The Washington Post

From Logically Facts: 〝Shortly after the prime ministers speech, social media users started adding subtitles or captions to footage from the event, claiming Kristersson said "folkm" or "folkmo" before pausing, which would make it more probable to hear "folkmord" - the Swedish word for genocide.〞
https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/analysis/israel-hasisrael-has-the-right-to-genocide-dubious-translation-of-swedens-pm-goes-viral-the-right-to-genocide-dubious-translation-of-swedens-pm-goes-viral

#disinformation #cheapfakes #Sweden #IsraelGazaWar #propaganda

'Israel has the right to genocide': Dubious translation of Sweden’s PM goes viral

NEW: Alethea has detected a network of accounts on X posting near-identical content about the Israel-Palestine conflict and promoting misleading and out of context translations of statements from Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
#disinformation #MDM #cheapfakes #Russia #war #Twitter
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/x-misinformation-israel-hamas-war-network-disinformation-rcna119696
67 X accounts spread coordinated Israel-Hamas disinformation: report

Researchers uncovered a network of 67 accounts on X that are coordinating a campaign of posting false, inflammatory content related to the Israel-Hamas war.

NBC News