Just another item in democrats mile-long list of proven cheapfakes
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220601/harris-campaign-trump-truth-social-elon-musk-interview-audioHarris campaign deceptively trims Trump post about Elon Musk interview / The Harris campaign seems to be playing fast and loose.
On Wednesday, Kamala Harris’ campaign page shared a Truth Social post from Donald Trump. In it, Trump blamed “the complexity of modern day equipment” for making his voice sound “somewhat different and strange” during a live interview on X with Elon Musk. But while the Harris campaign shared what looked like a screenshot of the post, they cut off the last line, where Trump explained that he released “an actual, and perfect, recording of the conversation.”
Exactly why the original broadcast sounded so odd is not totally clear — the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday about what led to the sound quality issues and what tech they used to fix it. But the Harris campaign’s post left out key context that Trump had released a cleaner version of the recording, making the post look purely like an excuse. “Trump blames his confused, slur-filled disaster of an interview with Elon Musk on ‘the complexity of modern day equipment,’” the KamalaHQ account wrote alongside the truncated post on Threads.
It’s not the only example of subtle narrative tweaks the campaign has made to put itself in a more favorable light or Donald Trump in a less favorable one. On Tuesday, Axios reported that the campaign has bought several ads linking to news stories from outlets like The Associated Press, CNN, and USA Today that show up at the top of Google search results pages. While these sponsored links send users to real news articles, the headline and text of the ads are written by the campaign, though it’s presented by Google in a way that appears as the outlet itself wrote it. Google allows for this.
