Elon Musk retweets altered Kamala Harris campaign ad

Elon Musk, the owner of X, retweeted a parody Kamala Harris campaign ad Friday without labeling it as misleading, an apparent violation of his own platform’s rules.

Elon Musk, the owner of X, retweeted a parody Kamala Harris campaign ad Friday without labeling it as misleading, an apparent violation of his own platform’s rules.

Segments of video in the altered content — such as Harris, the presumed Democratic nominee for president, speaking to crowds and general videos of her supporters — were used in a recent Harris campaign video on YouTube. Most notably, the altered content uses a voiceover that sounds like the vice president, making it seem she is calling President Joe Biden senile and herself an incompetent presidential candidate.  

Harris narrates in the original video, telling viewers, “In this election, we each face a question: What kind of country do we want to live in?” before she breaks into Beyoncé’s song “Freedom.”

The altered video Musk reposted does not include Beyoncé. Instead, a voice that sounds like Harris’ begins by saying, “I, Kamala Harris, am your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate.”

The voice goes on to say Harris was selected because she is “the ultimate diversity hire” as she’s both a woman and a person of color.

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