In the past few days, fake Joe Biden campaign ads have been widespread on Twitter, partially enhanced by current and former Trump campaign staff.
The image shows Biden with a ray of light coming out of the chest with his brain. No, it's his mind. ”It's overlaid with the official logo of the campaign. This Tweet It appears to be the original and at the time of publication, there were 10,000 retweets and 62,000 likes.
Fake ads have also been posted on other social media platforms such as Reddit and Tumblr, but this week an account named @khakijorts caught fire on Twitter after posting the image: “This can't make real ads 100%.”
Biden campaign The budge The advertisement is forged.
Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for the Trump presidential election campaign, also tweeted a fake ad. “Is this fake?” Murtaugh wrote. "I can't believe Twitter, but it seems like this is a Biden campaign leaning on the fact that Joe lost his fastball." “It's not a joke,” said Karen Giorno, strategist at Florida Trump's Florida branch in 2016. This is a real ad approved by @JoeBiden as president. "
In the past year, Twitter has implemented "manipulated media" tags to limit the spread of misleading political media, but mainly targeted "deep fake" audio and video, and the value of Biden images is unclear. In March, Twitter applied the “manipulated media” tag to tweets containing videos from Biden shared by White House social media director Dan Scavino.
The ad was completely organic, and neither would have been able to promote it since Twitter banned political advertising in October.
In the 2016 campaign, Trump believers like ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani pushed the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton suffered from secret illness after a brief disappearance of the campaign trail. Clinton was suffering from mild pneumonia, but many believed that her reaction to rumors eroded her trust. The right-wing group continued tactics in 2020, posting a health plot similar to Biden throughout the campaign.
Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comments, but as of press time, the platform did not falsely share images or share tweets.