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Bulwark Takes

Fox News Got Duped by AI—and Lied About It

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller takes on how Fox News ran with a totally fake story—racist AI videos pretending to be real “Black women”—and then quietly changed the headline instead of admitting they make a mistake.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, Tim Moore from the Bullwark here. Fox News got fooled by a series of racist AI videos who are purporting to be black women complaining about losing their snap benefits, but the women weren't real, and Fox reported it as news anyway.

0:18.7

Let me repeat. Fox News got fooled by a series of racist AI videos,

0:25.3

reporting to be black women complaining about losing their SNAP benefits,

0:28.6

and they reported those complaints that were made by computers,

0:35.5

pretending to be humans as if they were real news.

0:41.0

Yikes.

0:42.5

Yikes.

0:43.1

Let me explain how all this came to pass.

0:45.1

I came to my attention because I think it's an interesting story about kind of the intersection

0:49.1

between, you know, maga media, partisan media derangement and, you know, this brave new world of AI that we're

0:56.9

entering into where people can feed very, very true to like, very real seeming videos that play

1:07.6

to the prior biases and bigotries and, you know, resentments of media outlets,

1:16.8

partisan media outlets, particularly on the Maga side, that want to advance a narrative.

1:22.5

And so, like, this is just the first example.

1:27.1

But it is such a stark example of just Fox News's horrific news judgment and their

1:32.3

bigotry that it's worth kind of walking you through exactly what happened and how this

1:37.5

came to pass.

1:38.1

So on Friday, a friend flagged for me a Fox article in which they're trying to resuscitate this welfare queen narrative

1:46.2

to combat the fact that, you know, their boy, Donald Trump, is cutting people off from their

1:52.7

snap benefits right now for no reason. Actually, he's doing it illegally. Like, they have the money

1:58.0

to do it. And there's currently litigation on this matter.

2:01.7

But the Trump administration is going to cut people off or wants to cut people off. And obviously,

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