Key Points
- Someone deepfaked a video of President Joe Biden singing “Baby Shark” and calling it our “national anthem” — and as scary as that precedent is, the video itself is pretty amazing.
- “Ladies and gentlemen, and now, our great national anthem,” the president is heard saying in the video before busting out into a rendition of the worst children’s song earworm since “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?”
- Shortly after the edited video began circulating the Associated Press debunked the disinformation associated with the video and confirmed that it was, indeed, a deepfake.
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