A Denver TV news station accused a user of the social media platform X in a new federal lawsuit of creating and posting “deepfake” videos that manipulate a real news report to make it appear that anchors made racists and anti-Semitic statements.
Scripps Media Inc., which owns the local ABC affiliate KMGH Denver7, claimed that Lorenzo Macintosh violated copyright law by posting the manipulated videos on X, former known as Twitter, in May without permission.
The original news report published earlier that month told the story of a 14-year-old African American student at Castle Rock Middle School who said he ...
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