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- Elon Musk reposted a deepfake video of Kamala Harris on X on Friday night.
- The video, a parody of Harris' campaign ad, appears to have been digitally altered.
- Musk's repost lacked context, potentially breaching X's rules on synthetic and manipulated media.
On Friday evening, Elon Musk reposted a deepfake video of Vice President Kamala Harris on X — a move that may violate his own platform's policy on synthetic and manipulated media, The New York Times reported.
The video was originally posted by the user @MrReaganUSA, who noted that the clip was a "parody" of Harris' first campaign ad since becoming the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for the 2024 presidential election.
The clip appears to have been digitally altered to add a new voice-over that sounds like Harris.
In the video, the edited voice-over says, "I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire. I'm both a woman and a person of color, so if you criticize anything I say, you're both sexist and racist."
The deceptive voice-over also calls Biden senile and says Harris and Biden are "deep state" puppets.
In his repost of the clip, which has been viewed more than 117 million times, Musk failed to note that the video had been edited, writing only: "This is amazing
