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

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.

A creator of one of the images told the BBC: “I’m not claiming it’s accurate.”

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
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    8 months ago

    Douglas said he was mainly worried about the economy and immigration - issues which he felt Trump was more focused on. He said Democratic messaging about Trump’s threat to democracy would not motivate him to vote, because he was already disillusioned with the electoral process.

    And that’s the biggest issue because no matter who Black, Brown or Indigenous people vote for, nothing ever changes for them.

    Kimberly Jones said it best even tho she was referring to a different kind of disengagement.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      God, people in this country are so fucking stupid (by design). I was going to say that people like him will find out just how big a mistake electing him would be, then I realized that no matter what happens, people like this will never accept responsibility for anything.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      And that’s the biggest issue because no matter who Black, Brown or Indigenous people vote for, nothing ever changes for them.

      Not entirely true. Under Barack Obama, black household wealth fell by 40%. It wasn’t until Trump that they were approaching recovery, and that was in large part thanks to the enormous outflow of public money during the COVID crisis.

      Money that, under Joe Biden, we ratcheted back.

      Its so fucking crazy to see the Republican Party as the “Fuck it, everyone gets free money!” party and the Democrats as these miserly means-test-your-baby-formula bail-out-the-banks party.