Creepy Mark Zuckerberg deep fake warns Democrats about Big Tech failures. (via The ReidOut Blog)
behemoth parent company
, Meta, just had his likeness used in a rather cutting advertisement produced by the progressive activist group Demand Progress. The ad, which was released this week, deploys a deepfake of Zuckerberg to needle Democratic lawmakers for their ineptitude and failure to impose regulations on powerful tech platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram.
In recent years, congressional investigations, whistleblower testimony and news reports have all highlighted Meta’s failure to curb disinformation, hate speech and dubious manipulation efforts. Yet Facebook — and virtually every other major social media platform plagued with similar issues — has evaded regulation during the time Democrats have held control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives.
The video immediately cuts to actual footage of an embarrassing line of questioning that the late Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,“Either way,” #FakeZuck says, “it looks like the most consequential action that Congress is poised to take — a bipartisan bill to prevent companies like mine from self-dealing — is about to fade away like so many efforts to rein in Big Tech in the past.
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