Former president Donald Trump has shared AI-generated images that falsely claim Taylor Swift fans are supporting his campaign.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump shared screenshots of four posts on X that purport to show a number of young women all wearing “Swifties for Trump” T-shirts in a variety of styles.
One of the screenshots claimed that Swifties are supporting Trump now after Taylor Swift canceled her concert in Vienna due to security concerns. Another image included the phrase “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump.”
“I accept!” Trump captioned his post.
However, Trump’s post appears to contain a mixture of real and AI-generated images that falsely suggest a widespread and coordinated movement of Swifties for Trump. Using a tool created by the nonprofit True Media to detect the spread of election-related deepfakes, WIRED found that many of the images shared by Trump show “substantial evidence of manipulation.”
One of the screenshots Trump shared was from an anonymous pro-Trump account with over 300,000 followers that regularly posts AI-generated images. Following its post about Swifties for Trump, this account shared a follow-up post that said the original Swifties for Trump post was “satire.”
While there doesn’t appear to be an active Swifties for Trump campaign initiative, there is an active Swifties4Kamala group. “We do not represent every Swiftie, but I think there is a reason we don’t need AI to show our support for Kamala,” Irene Kim, cofounder of Swifties4Harris, tells WIRED.
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