Billionaire South Africa-born X owner Elon Musk is facing criticism for sharing a deepfake video featuring US vice-president Kamala Harris.
, which tech campaigners said violated the platform’s own policies.a manipulated Harris campaign video in which a voiceover mimicking her calls President Joe Biden senile, and declares that she does not “know the first thing about running the country,” adding that as a woman and a person of colour, she is the “ultimate diversity hire.”
“We believe 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,” Harris’s presidential campaign said in a statement. Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, posted on X that the manipulated Harris video “should be illegal” and that he would soon sign a bill banning such media.
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