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00:02 Supporters of Donald Trump have been circulating AI-generated deepfake images of black individuals
00:07 endorsing Trump in an effort to sway African-American voters towards the Republican Party.
00:11 One of these fakes includes a picture that went viral of Trump with black voters.
00:14 They were spread across platforms like Instagram and Facebook,
00:17 but were flagged and removed for violating policies against manipulated media.
00:20 There's no direct evidence linking the Trump campaign to the production or distribution
00:24 of these deepfakes.
00:25 Civil rights groups condemned the targeting of black voters with
00:28 deliberately misleading AI-generated propaganda.
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