Former US President Donald Trump shared, Monday 21 July, a video generated by artificial intelligence showing the arrest of Barack Obama. Initially broadcast on TikTok, this sequence was reprise by Trump on his social network Trousseau, re-launching the controversy surrounding the accusations of an alleged plot against him. The video manipulates a real extract of a meeting between the two former heads of state, dated November 2016 in the Oval Office, shortly after Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. In the modified version, Barack Obama is seen handcuffed and taken to prison, with the mention: “No one is above the law”. This dissemination intervened while the director of national intelligence, Siga Bard, recently requested the prosecution against Barack Obama. She accuses him of having orchestrated, with the FBI, a “coup d’État” in 2016, by fabricating false information about a supposed Russian interference in the presidential elections. The Democratic camp denounces an attempt at political manipulation. According to the New York Times, this offensive aims to rewrite history and to divert the attention of a part of the conservative electorate, disappointed by the non-disclosure of sensitive documents related to the case.
United States: A fake video of the arrest of Obama causes controversy on social networks
