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| There is also a cut halfway through the clip of President Biden tweeted by the Democrats, so he wasn't holding continuous eye contact for the whole time. A longer version of the video has been published by the White House which shows the president blinking several times. (Photo by= The White House) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] People are falsely claiming a video of US President Joe Biden posted by the Democratic Party is a deep fake. A deep fake is a video created using artificial intelligence to show someone saying or doing something they didn't do, BBC reported.
We've looked into the video. Social media users have claimed the video has been altered to superimpose the president's face on an actor's body using artificial intelligence. In the 17-second clip, President Biden speaks about the 6 January riots which saw protesters storm the US Capitol building. The riot is currently being investigated by a congressional panel. The video was published on the Democrats' official Twitter account on Wednesday, and quickly became part of a wider conspiracy theory.
Posts doubting the legitimacy of the video have been shared thousands of times, including by prominent pundits from the right-wing US television channels Newsmax and One America News. One reason people have cast doubt on the video is that they say President Biden looks different in another video published on the same day - which some people have also claimed is fake. People blink approximately 12 times a minute, but it's perfectly possible not to blink for an extended period of time far longer than the 17 seconds featured in this video.
