Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her engaging in election denialism — and have been viewed millions of times::Taylor Swift is being targeted again by deepfakes, with supporters of Donald Trump posting manipulated media falsely showing her supporting Trump.

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    10 months ago

    We need to make deepfakes of Trump talking about election fraud being a scam and how the american populous, especially urban and rural republicans, are fucken dumb. Just fill this bitch with trump deep fakes.

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    10 months ago

    For what it’s worth, I doubt these videos were “viewed” millions of times. X tracks a 1-second automatic playback as a view, such as when someone slowly scrolls past on their feed. Every other service typically counts that as an impression.

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    10 months ago

    If she would only apply as much legal pressure on X as she does on that one student blogger tracking her CO2 footprint.

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      10 months ago

      I’m amazed her team of lawyers haven’t filed a lawsuit yet. Just collecting evidence for now, I suppose. But it’s starting to pile up quickly.

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    10 months ago

    Can someone explain to me why we cannot wrap these deep fakes into existing identity theft law? Or at least impersonating a public official /government employee when it comes to politicians.

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      10 months ago

      Because it has nothing to do with identity theft? The actors are not attempting to pass by another person for fraudulent purposes. Supporting Trump is not exactly illegal, I guess. I’m sure there are laws that align better with this scenario.