Talk about playing with fire and getting burned.

The Republican National Committee is defiantly sending out misleading videos to add credibility to the idea that an aging President Biden is mentally incompetent. RNC officials say they do not care that their fraud is being called out by fact-checkers at big news organizations. Although not manipulated by AI, they do not stand up to scrutiny "when the moments are viewed in context or from wider camera angles."

They do not care that the Biden White House’s press secretary is labeling the manipulated videos as "cheapfakes" and saying the treachery tells “you everything that we need to know about how desperate Republicans are.”

Republicans don’t care, because these cheapfake videos are a money-making hit, click-bait supreme in the conservative media’s echo chamber.

They are even being picked up for local news broadcasts by Sinclair. Conservative websites and radio shows have joined in mocking and bullying Biden.

But while they are laughing, the Republicans have not noticed that they’ve set their pants on fire.

Congressional Republicans, led by former President Donald Trump, for years have argued that right-wing media content would be unfairly constrained by establishment liberals in the big social media companies and government.

They posed as defenders of conservative free speech to oppose rules to constrain the flood........

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