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Chris Cuomo Amplifies Reportedly Labeled Deepfake Video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Purportedly Contributing to Misleading Political Narrative
- Occurred
- Aug 6, 2025
- Published
- Aug 7, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo reportedly shared on Instagram a video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that was prominently labeled as a parody deepfake created with AI technology. In his commentary, Cuomo purportedly treated the statements in the video as genuine, using them to criticize Ocasio-Cortez for his audience.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown creator of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez parody deepfake
- Chris Cuomo
Harmed parties
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Chris Cuomo
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
Tags
- misframed labeled deepfake
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves amplification of a labeled deepfake video, creating misleading political narrative.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8