NewsNation host Chris Cuomo fell for a deepfake AI video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and has since apologized for his statements.
After being informed he had been incorrect in believing the video was authentic, Cuomo subsequently deleted the clip.
On his program Wednesday evening, Cuomo admitted that he had been duped by the online video before apologizing for falling for the fake.
“I was wrong,” began Cuomo. “I was tweeting today and saw a clip of AOC saying that Sidney Sweeney ad was racist, and so I replied to it. And I said, ‘Why do you care about this and ignore what matters most? Why in all the times that you’ve called on Israel to stop, why have you never told Hamas to stop? Told Hamas to surrender. Why would you ignore the St Louis attack on that Jewish guy who had his car bombed?’
“AOC tweeted back and said, ‘Dude, that’s a deep fake. You suck,’ in so many words. And she was right. They got me. It was really good, and it did seem like something she would say, but it wasn’t her.”
Cuomo continued, however, by arguing that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had failed to address the chief arguments he was making that didn’t have anything to do with the comments made in the AI video.
“She is a money-making machine for the Democratic Party, or whatever they are now,” he said. “She is a current and future leader for that party, such as it is. And she should lead on what matters. People listen.
“I’m not even talking about her actual job, which is legislation,” he continued. “My criticism of her being more about talk than walk is objective. Her record of legislative achievement is almost none. It’s as sparse as her criticism for the people who massacred Jews on October 7th.”
In response to Chris Cuomo, the representative said, “I’m going to assume you were trying to reply to me and burped this tweet into the ether instead. You seem to struggle with knowing how to write an apology. Do you need help? Maybe you should call someone.”
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