{"id":14413,"date":"2024-05-11T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/she-was-accused-of-faking-an-incriminating-video-of-teenage-cheerleaders-she-was-arrested-outcast-and-condemned-the-problem-nothing-was-fake-after-all\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T08:37:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:37:45","slug":"she-was-accused-of-faking-an-incriminating-video-of-teenage-cheerleaders-she-was-arrested-outcast-and-condemned-the-problem-nothing-was-fake-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/she-was-accused-of-faking-an-incriminating-video-of-teenage-cheerleaders-she-was-arrested-outcast-and-condemned-the-problem-nothing-was-fake-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moral panic following Raffaella Spone\u2019s \u2018deepfake\u2019 video spread around the world. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story in which nothing was as it seemed \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky \u2013 as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi\u2019s face \u2013 but it was damning. Madi was a cheerleader with the Victory Vipers, a highly competitive \u201call-star\u201d squad based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The Vipers had a strict code of conduct; being caught partying and vaping could have got her thrown out of the team. And in July 2020, an anonymous person sent the incriminating video directly to Madi\u2019s coaches.<\/p>\n

Eight months later, that footage was the subject of a police news conference. \u201cThe police reviewed the video and other photographic images and found them to be what we now know to be called deepfakes,\u201d district attorney Matt Weintraub told the assembled journalists at the Bucks County courthouse on 15 March 2021. Someone was deploying cutting-edge technology to tarnish a teenage cheerleader\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

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\nThe moral panic following Raffaella Spone\u2019s \u2018deepfake\u2019 video spread around the world. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story in which nothing was as it seemed \u2026<\/p>\n

Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky \u2013 as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi\u2019s face \u2013 but it was damning. Madi was a cheerleader with the Victory Vipers, a highly competitive \u201call-star\u201d squad based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The Vipers had a strict code of conduct; being caught partying and vaping could have got her thrown out of the team. And in July 2020, an anonymous person sent the incriminating video directly to Madi\u2019s coaches.
\nEight months later, that footage was the subject of a police news conference. \u201cThe police reviewed the video and other photographic images and found them to be what we now know to be called deepfakes,\u201d district attorney Matt Weintraub told the assembled journalists at the Bucks County courthouse on 15 March 2021. Someone was deploying cutting-edge technology to tarnish a teenage cheerleader\u2019s reputation. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The moral panic following Raffaella Spone\u2019s \u2018deepfake\u2019 video spread around the world. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story in which nothing was as it seemed \u2026 Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. …<\/p>\n

She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}