The Republicans Feeding You Cheapfakes Think You're Stupid
Their clips are made to hurt Biden, but their flagrant deceptiveness could backfire.
If online algorithms peg you as a person with even passing interest in politics, they will quickly serve you up viral clips, most all misleadingly edited, that make Joe Biden seem demented.
Republican operatives know these snippets of footage are chum to left- and right-wing social-media personalities, and likely to disturb more politically detached users, so they splice them in house.
Some they clip suspiciously short, because it’s easy to make someone seem lost or confused when recorded out of context. Some literally edit down the view frame, because it’s easy to make someone look loopy when you cut the people they’re talking or waving to out of view.
But last week they made a mistake.