Bernice King, daughter of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., is looking for a Trump-supporting social media account to take away an AI-generated advert that includes her father.
In a video posted to X, the account @MAGAResource shares a “deepfake” video of King praising former President Trump.
“We’ve been told again and again that we cannot vote for the man that did more for the Black community than any other president,” the advert begins, with King’s famed baritone. “If a Black man dares speak out in support of Donald Trump, a Democrat is always there to call that man an Uncle Tom, a house negro or even worse.”
The advert alleged that Democrats are failing Black Individuals and have taken the demographic without any consideration for many years.
The account the video was posted to isn’t formally affiliated with the Trump marketing campaign.
Bernice King denounced the video, demanding the account delete it and saying that it stands in opposition to every little thing her father was for.
“It’s vile, fake, irresponsible, and not at all reflective of what my father would say,” King wrote. “And you gave no thought to our family.”
The King household has grow to be more and more concerned within the 2024 presidential race, with some members endorsing first President Biden then Vice President Harris. They’ve repeatedly denounced Trump, significantly because the GOP nominee has regularly invoked the civil rights legend’s title.
Trump has falsely claimed that his 2020 inauguration speech drew the identical variety of individuals to the nationwide wall because the March on Washington that noticed King give his well-known “I Have a Dream” speech.
He additionally in contrast North Carolina’s GOP gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, to King. Robinson reportedly described himself as a “black Nazi” on a web based message board, and has confronted a deluge of scandals all through the marketing campaign.
The fabricated MLK Jr. video comes at a time when each events are involved in regards to the position of deepfakes influencing voters, with each candidates having been targets of AI-generated movies over the course of the marketing campaign.
