{"id":12998,"date":"2025-07-21T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12998\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:24:08","slug":"trump-shares-ai-video-falsely-depicting-barack-obamas-arrest-by-fbi-draws-sharp-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12998\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump shares AI video falsely depicting Barack Obama&#8217;s arrest by FBI, draws sharp criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has sparked widespread outrage after posting an AI-generated video on Truth Social that falsely depicts Barack Obama being arrested by FBI agents in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/subscription?utm_source=HOUSE&amp;utm_medium=adcode&amp;utm_campaign=MEM_TRIBUNE&amp;utm_id=RW_MEM\" style=\"text-align:center;margin:0 auto;display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" srcdata=\"https:\/\/img.cdn.sortd.mobi\/thetribune-sortd-pro-prod-sortd\/tbanner-728-1.gif\" style=\"display:inline-block\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The video opens with real footage of Obama stating, &#8220;especially the President is above the law,&#8221; followed by several U.S. political figures asserting, &#8220;no one is above the law.&#8221; It then shifts to an AI-generated scene of Obama being handcuffed in the White House by two agents while Trump watches and smiles. The video concludes with a fabricated image of Obama in a prison cell wearing an orange jumpsuit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Critics condemned the video as &#8220;deeply irresponsible,&#8221; particularly because it lacked any disclaimer identifying it as fictional or AI-generated. Many warned that it represents a dangerous misuse of artificial intelligence and disinformation in the political arena.<\/p>\n<p>The video comes in the wake of controversial remarks from U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who recently released a 114-page declassified intelligence report. Gabbard alleged that former Obama administration officials manipulated intelligence after the 2016 election in an effort to discredit Trump\u2019s presidency by promoting the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Gabbard called the actions a \u201ctreasonous conspiracy,\u201d accusing officials of weaponising US intelligence agencies in what she described as a &#8220;years-long coup&#8221; against Trump. She urged that those responsible be brought to trial.<\/p>\n<p>However, the ODNI report also includes assessments from late 2016 stating that Russia &#8220;did not impact the outcome of the US election&#8221; through cyber interference. The findings have reignited partisan debates over the origins and handling of the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s decision to publish the AI video without clarification has intensified concerns over the political misuse of artificial intelligence. &#8220;This is not just satire\u2014it\u2019s calculated disinformation that undermines democratic trust,&#8221; said one media ethics expert. Others warned that such deepfake content could become a major weapon in the 2024 and 2028 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has sparked widespread outrage after posting an AI-generated video on Truth Social that falsely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[12226,12227,12228,12229,12230,12231,12232,12233,12234,62,276,277,49,48,12235,61],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-2024election","tag-aiinpolitics","tag-deepfakedisinformation","tag-electionmisinformation","tag-obamaarrest","tag-politicalai","tag-russiacollusiondebate","tag-trumpaivideo","tag-tulsigabbardreport","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fakenews","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}