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.”

  • Darkard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    “I’m not a photojournalist,” Mr Kaye tells me from his radio studio.

    “I’m not out there taking pictures of what’s really happening. I’m a storyteller.”

    “I just happen to be telling fictional stories about real people, but deliberately not telling anyone.”