Fake Bill Clinton Videos

[Hornbein]

The channel https://www.youtube.com/@RomeoRobinson1 has made sixty fake Bill Clinton speeches. I found one completely convincing until I could find no reference to such speeches anywhere else. I urge readers to report such impersonation to YouTube. This tells how to do this.

 

[jedishrfu]

That's good to know, but I wonder how Youtube implements it.

- Is it automatic that when n users complain, YouTube automatically suspends the video or the whole account?

- Is it a takedown for impersonating a public figure?

Often, YouTube moderation fails to do the right thing, or when they do, sluggishly, but the damage is done.

Now maybe it would be better to contact Bill Clinton so he can pursue a defamation case against the creator and against YouTube for hosting it. I'm not sure how hard that would be, as public figures need to prove how damaging it is to their image.

I do know some actors have added provisions in their movie contracts saying they own the rights to their image, but I'm not sure it would apply here. It’s usually stated so some production can't add a scene that uses a digital image of the actor with the actor’s permission.

Many times, these creators are sadly beyond US jurisdiction, and should YouTube do the right thing by suspending their account. They will create a new one with the same videos, but perhaps with adjusted content, so YouTube can’t detect a banned video.

This doesn't address how other platforms like Tiktok and it's many imitators handles deep fake videos.

 

[FactChecker]

Like most "how to" tutorials on the internet/Windows, the instructions in the video are not valid. On that channel, itself, I can not find an "About" option to select. Has YouTube changed it? Is it dependent on the browser? This is one of the infuriating aspects of modern computing. It is why I greatly prefer the command-line interface of Linux. In Linux, someone can tell you the command and it works (almost always).