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"On Friday, Fox News published an article with the headline 'SNAP Beneficiaries Threaten to Ransack Stores Over Government Shutdown.' The piece, written by Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi and filed under the site’s 'cultural trends' section, featured quotes from several Black women complaining about losing their food stamp benefits."
~ Parker Molloy
"One woman, the article reported, said she had 'seven different baby daddies and none of ‘em no good for me.' Another declared: 'It is the taxpayer’s responsibility to take care of my kids.'
There’s just one problem: these women don’t exist. They’re AI-generated."
"The videos Fox News presented as evidence of actual SNAP recipients threatening to loot stores were created using tools like OpenAI’s Sora, complete with watermarks that Fox’s screenshots attempted to blur out. Fox News didn’t interview anyone. They didn’t verify that these people were real. They found videos on social media that confirmed every racist stereotype about Black women on public assistance, and they ran with it."
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