Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images - BBC News

Faked images of black voters with Trump are a growing disinformation trend in the US election, the BBC finds.

9 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, AI-GENERATED IMAGEImage caption, This image, created by a radio host and his team using AI, is one of dozens of fakes portraying black Trump supportersBy Marianna SpringBBC Panorama and AmericastDonald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.

BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.

Mr Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden's election win in 2020.

But there's no evidence directly linking these images to Mr Trump's campaign.

The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a "strategic narrative" designed to show Mr Trump as popular in the black community.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68440150

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