{"id":15655,"date":"2024-08-24T16:39:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/24\/how-did-donald-trump-end-up-posting-taylor-swift-deepfakes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T16:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T14:39:18","slug":"how-did-donald-trump-end-up-posting-taylor-swift-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/24\/how-did-donald-trump-end-up-posting-taylor-swift-deepfakes\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Donald Trump end up posting Taylor Swift deepfakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI images posted to Truth Social bore the watermark of a tiny Texas non-profit looking to bankroll X users<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/19\/trump-ai-swift-harris-musk-deepfake-images\">slew of AI-generated images<\/a> this week that falsely depicted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/taylor-swift\">Taylor Swift<\/a> and her fans endorsing his campaign for president, the former US president was amplifying the work of a murky non-profit with aspirations to bankroll rightwing media influencers and a history of spreading misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the images Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, which showed digitally rendered young women in \u201cSwifties for Trump\u201d T-shirts, were the products of the John Milton Freedom Foundation. Launched last year, the Texas-based non-profit organization frames itself as a press freedom group with the goal of \u201cempowering independent journalists\u201d and \u201cfortifying the bedrock of democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/24\/trump-taylor-swift-deepfakes-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e33d6847d245b5ed7302c70616d8a92fba77cb52\/0_360_5356_3215\/master\/5356.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b20251d5dd91c49ce48b21aabc43db8f\" title=\"How did Donald Trump end up posting Taylor Swift deepfakes?\" \/>AI images posted to Truth Social bore the watermark of a tiny Texas non-profit looking to bankroll X users<br \/>\nWhen Donald Trump shared a slew of AI-generated images this week that falsely depicted Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing his campaign for president, the former US president was amplifying the work of a murky non-profit with aspirations to bankroll rightwing media influencers and a history of spreading misinformation.<br \/>\nSeveral of the images Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, which showed digitally rendered young women in \u201cSwifties for Trump\u201d T-shirts, were the products of the John Milton Freedom Foundation. Launched last year, the Texas-based non-profit organization frames itself as a press freedom group with the goal of \u201cempowering independent journalists\u201d and \u201cfortifying the bedrock of democracy\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI images posted to Truth Social bore the watermark of a tiny Texas non-profit looking to bankroll X users When Donald Trump shared a slew of AI-generated images this week that falsely depicted Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing his campaign for president, the former US president was amplifying the work of a murky non-profit &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/24\/how-did-donald-trump-end-up-posting-taylor-swift-deepfakes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How did Donald Trump end up posting Taylor Swift deepfakes?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15656,"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\/15655"}],"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=15655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}