False claims of 'deepfake' President Biden go viral

Source: BBC

False claims of 'deepfake' President Biden go viral

By Jake Horton & Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Reality Check & BBC Monitoring

28 July 2022

People are falsely claiming a video of US President Joe Biden posted by the Democratic Party is a deepfake.

A deepfake is a video created using artificial intelligence to show someone saying or doing something they didn't do.

We've looked into the video.

What are people claiming?

Social media users have claimed the video has been altered to superimpose the president's face on an actor's body using artificial intelligence.

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