Remember when Biden’s Spokesmuppet claimed that awkward moment at the Obama/Clooney Hollywood fundraiser was a ‘cheap fake’? That a lie. NOW, they are the ones caught doing creative editing of Biden appearances.
It was bad enough when two radio stations came clean about the Biden campaign dictating what questions Joe would be asked in interviews. But now they are involved in editorial decisions about what moments of those interviews actually see the light of day?
So much for the guy who had ‘no malarkey’ on his campaign busses. He’s gonna need a different message this time around.
Not even a month ago, Biden’s PressSec was making wild accusations about unedited video of Biden looking feeble in public being evidence of a right-wing disinformation effort. She introduced the word Cheap Fake into the vernacular.
The ‘cheap fake’ narrative the White House was passing around after Obama led Biden off the stage last month came from people who study misinformation. They told us, in their most solemn and expert-y tones, that:
Cheap fakes are like deepfakes in that they involve the manipulation of media to make something look real when it really isn’t. However, cheap fakes take very little skill to create, and they can be made with simple and accessible tools, rather than sophisticated artificial intelligence tools. In other words, you don’t have to be an AI whiz or have a lot of money to make a cheap fake.
The term cheap fake was coined by Britt Paris and Joan Donovan, who defined it as “an AV manipulation created with cheaper, more accessible software (or, none at all).” Nina Schick, author of Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse, describes a cheap fake as “a piece of media that has been crudely manipulated, edited, mislabeled, or improperly contextualized in order to spread disinformation.” The News Literacy Project refers to cheap fakes as “deepfake’s less polished and more believable cousin, which takes real audio, images or videos and cheaply manipulates or decontextualizes them.”
Bret Schafer from Michigan Online at the University of Michigan says, “Although deep fakes are more convincing, cheap fakes have fewer barriers to being created and disseminated and still misinform and mislead.” — Avid open access
Here is a screenshot of the four different categories the same site explains that these ‘cheap fakes’ fall into.
Let’s keep numbers 2 and 3 in mind in light of the allegations against Team Biden.
A Milwaukee radio station admitted Thursday that it edited a taped interview with President Biden — at his campaign’s request — to remove references touting the number of “blacks” in his administration and incoherent commentary on the Central Park Five.
Civic Media, the radio network that broadcasted the 81-year-old president’s July 3 interview on “The Earl Ingram Show,” said the decision by the program to scrub the remarks prior to airing the interview on July 4, fell short of “journalistic interview standards.”
The first edit came about five minutes into the 18-minute-long interview, in which Biden claimed, “… and in addition to that, I have more blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions.” —NYPost
Remember those two black-audience radio shows Biden took heat over because they provided the interview questions? One in Philly led to the firing of a black host… and this is the other one from Wisconsin.
Civic Media looked into the matter and found two deletions from that interview at the Biden team’s request. While they criticized the editorial decision, Civic Media stopped short of calling it a fireable offence.
If Team Biden is in charge of the questions, AND in charge of the final content, this wasn’t an interview so much as a campaign video. Republicans might want to consider raising this issue with the Federal Elections Commission.
Sorry Biden Inc., you don’t get to whine about real video that makes your guy look bad being a ‘cheap fake’ while your media hits are more orchestrated than a WWE title bout.
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