Bulwark Takes - Fox News Got Duped by AI—and Lied About It

Episode Date: November 1, 2025

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.

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No purchase necessary. C-rolls at Play.mcd.com for full details, and AMOE.com to play without purchase. Ends November 23rd, but bonus play ends November 2nd. Monopoly is a registered trademark of Hasbro. Copyright McDonald's. 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. Let me repeat. Fox News got fooled

by a series of racist AI videos, reporting to be black women complaining about losing their snap benefits. And they reported those complaints that were made by computers pretending to be humans as if they were real news. Yikes. Yikes. Let me explain how all this came to pass. I came to my attention because I think it's an interesting story about kind of the intersection between, you know, maga media, partisan media derangement and, you know, this brave new world of AI that we're entering into where people can feed very, very true to a lot, like very real seeming videos that play to the prior biases and bigotries and, you know, resentments of media outlets, partisan media outlets, particularly on the Magaside, that want to advance a narrative.

And so, like this is just the first. example. But it is such a stark example of just Fox News's horrific news judgment and their bigotry that it's worth kind of walking you through exactly what happened and how this came to pass. So on Friday, a friend flagged for me a Fox article in which they're trying to resuscitate this welfare queen narrative to combat the fact that, you know, their boy, Donald Trump is cutting people off from their snap benefits right now for no reason. actually is doing it illegally, like they have the money to do it. And there's currently litigation on this matter.

But the Trump administration is going to cut people off or wants to cut people off. And obviously that's bad politics. There's a lot of MAGA folks on SNAP. There's a lot of Trump voters on SNAP. That's just in general, people think people should be able to get, you know, healthy food, get food on their table. And so in order to kind of try to change the narrative on this, you have Fox, which acts, you know,

as a part-time news organization, part-time super PAC for Donald Trump, it's like, okay, well, let's, how can we, you know, let's go back to the old playbook, let's go back to the 80s playbook. Let's see if we can get some welfare queen stuff out there. And that way, the Fox viewers won't be thinking about, you know, the poor rural whites that are going to lose their food,

in which case they might be mad about that because they're sympathetic to those folks' plight. But instead, we want the Fox News, years to be thinking of something that they won't like, you know, a black lady in the inner city. And so Fox runs this article and I tweeted it out, just talking about how absurd it is to like cover these random people's complaints about Snap as if it was news and pointing out just like how obvious it is what Fox is trying to do here with their race baiting. And I tweeted the article and like highlighted a specific section. I'm going to read from it. Fox describes this person as

another user on social media. That user said, because of the government shut down, now I can't get my snaps for next month. I have seven different baby daddies and none of them good for me. She said, crazy. That video had also a takedown component. So this was a written article on Fox, but also a Fox contributor, Brett Cooper, did a video takedown of that. Let's watch that together. Because the government shut down, now I can't get my steps for next month. How am I feed my seven kids. I have seven different baby daddies and none of them no good fun. Ma'am, this is an insane video to make. That is your responsibility. And side note, maybe we could use this as an opportunity to fix the broken families in America to remind people to be

careful about who you sleep with and who you have children with because it is not the American taxpayers' fault that you have seven baby daddies who will not step up and help you pay the grocery bills. Like, this should be a warning sign for everyone. So let's put a hold on that with Brett Cooper because maybe maybe it isn't exactly what she's saying. Maybe this, maybe this story isn't as easy as she seems like she's there on her high horse lecturing this random person on on the internet um but maybe the story's a little more complicated uh so i tweet this even if these were real people this is an absurd story to cover um and it's outrageous to try to like nut pick a handful of people that you think will play into the racial prejudice of your

audience insane to consider that and consider the news judgment on that but the problem here is I don't the people aren't even real many of the people they're quoting aren't even real after I sent the tweet some others who you know are deeper into the TikTok game than me quote tweeted me including us on Piker and some others observing that like wait this story that Tim is pushing out is actually quoting like AI robots not people clankers and that there is this trend going on on social media, where there are a lot of videos of various black people, I mean, black, again, their robots,

but fake videos of black people complaining about not getting their stamp benefits and using kind of a series of racist tropes about why that might be. So those videos are very popular. They've been created in part by a chat, GBT, Zora. So shout out to Sam Altman. Thank you for this. It's really great that we just started a living, this wild wild west now people can just create racist videos pass them off as real post them on

social media uh get viral get a lot of attention and then suppose that news outlets will cover that and pretend as if it's a real thing i mean we are just 100% through the looking glass and uh we've got you know same outman his buddies uh who decided that they just want uh you know totally animal spirits unfettered marketplace on this one without any regulations, without any actually thought about, well, you know, what it might do for society. So anyway, these videos are getting created. And now this is spiraling for Fox. Like it's getting a lot of attention. Like Fox literally ran a story about how outrageous it was that people, you know, were complaining about, you know, not getting their SNAP benefits because they deserved to have the taxpayers pay for

them, their kids, and to find out, like, yeah, the whole premise of the story was fake. Like, it was based off fake videos. Like, they got fooled like they are a Facebook boomer. And Fox really is, like the Facebook Trump voting boomer of the news world. And they acted like one of the things that you get on a forward forward, forward email. It's like, whoa, have you seen this crazy thing? And it's like, well, wait, no, that's actually a fake thing. So Fox covers that. As a news. This creates a stir, a kerfuffle on the internet.

And you wonder what Fox reaction might be to that. Obviously sensitive to posting fake information after having lost that $700 plus million lawsuit to Dominion voting systems. They update the story this way. I should point out of the story is by Alba Fantazi.

So, you know, we should shout out journalism of this nature when we see it. They update the story. A new headline is this. videos of SNAP beneficiaries complaining about cuts go viral. So, like, the story, the story that they had originally posted, like, rather than just saying, no, we were wrong, like, the original, here, let's just pull up the two headlines back to back.

The original story said that SNAP beneficiaries threatened to ransack stores over government shutdown. So, like, that is their newspeg, is that there are people who are threatening to loot because they're losing their SNAP benefits. That's stated as fact in Fox. Subhead, one mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts. You can feel their tone about how you should be outraged at these freeloaders.

I love also this is in the cultural trends section. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Cultural trends. I see what you're doing there. Then they update the same story, same link. No like, oh, retraction, none of that. And they changed it from SNAP beneficiaries threatened to ransom.

sex stores over government shutdown to AI videos of SNAP beneficiaries complaining about cuts go viral like what I you got it totally wrong you claim these are real people and now you're now you're trying to make this headline AI videos of SNAP beneficiaries complaining actually no we should just be clear this is even still wrong the AI videos are not of SNAP beneficiaries complaining the AI videos are fake they're very videos of imaginary people that some racist conjured and prompted SORA to create for them. Like, that is, that is what's happening here. These aren't, even AI videos of SNAP beneficiaries complaining.

But, like, how do you do, how do you just update the story like that? Like, we got fooled. It could be like me coming on here on the bull market with our TDS. And doing a story about how I watched this video and a woman said that they had sex with Donald Trump in 1985 and that he finished in under eight seconds and that he had a strange, you know, kind of warped on his testes and that he has a lizard tongue. and I came on here and I posted this story about how we have this exclusive on a woman that's slept with Trump

40 years ago and she says he has a forked tongue and a ward on his balls. And then finding out that it wasn't actually a woman that slept with Trump was a fake video that somebody created.

And then rather than correcting the story or changing it or apologizing just updating it to be like AI video of Trump lover says he has warts on his balls. No, no. You were wrong like you got fooled by a fake video it shouldn't have been a new story in the first place you got fooled by fake video and now you're just out there continuing to follow up the story actually

I want to go through their their article here their attempt to clean up just just see if a sense what we're talking about I want to play some of the AI videos that they're discussing like in this first one here you can kind of see up in the upper left corner the SORA watermark that's flashing they try to blur it out but you can see it let's watch this one I'm gonna keep it real with you I get over $2,500 a month and stamps. I sell them $2,000 worth for about $12,500 to $1,500. That's why everybody's upset. Folks say we're taking advantage, but that's how we get by.

And that's the frustration we're hearing out here in downtown Atlanta. And, okay, and again, it does look pretty real. So, like, on the one hand, you know, this is not, like, getting fooled by one of these old deep fakes that were terrible. Like, these things are getting good. but like you're a news organization and so if you're going to do an interview if you're going to do an article based on a fact that was presented by a person you need to confirm that that person exists in the world you know you can't just like run with it and one of the reasons you can't just run with it is because nowadays in 2025 the person that you're

watching on your TikTok might not be a person it might be a computer And so if you're a news organization, you've got to like prepare for that. Anyway, the article goes on like this. What appears to have been an artificially generated video of SNAP beneficiaries expressing outage on social media over the government shutdown have gone viral. Here's the one that they highlighted in both. It's the taxpayer's responsibility to take care of my kids. It's a taxpayer's job to pay for my kids to eat and for my kids to be taken care of.

I feel like Fox's Spidey Sense could have clicked on that one. And it's just like, who talks like that? It's the taxpayer's responsibility to take care of my kids. Like, nobody talks like that. Like, that is obviously a troll. It's obviously a right-winger trolling the mindset of the welfare state left. And you would think that anybody who, I guess, Fox, especially where they have right-wingers, that do these kind of trolls, would have been able to sniff that out.

Anyway, the new article continues. It includes the one previously mentioned about the seven different baby daddies. And then, again, it goes on other similar videos of women also claiming to have seven different children and seven fathers for them also went viral and what appeared to be AI generated content. I do just have to correct them one more time. These are not videos of women if they're AI generated. They're fake videos. They're videos of computers. They've been conjured.

They're not videos of women. those are not women. What is a woman? It's a good question. The Daily Wire has been on to this for while in Fox and Matt Walsh has been on Fox. What is a woman? Oftentimes their answer boils down to genitalia. The women in these videos do not have vaginas because they're not women. They are computers. If you're going to get fooled by AI videos and then try to fix it by turning the article into a article about the racist AI video trend, you should at least not in that cleanup. up article, like, still pretend like, these are real humans that were advancing the right-wing tropes like about, about working, about black working mothers in the cities

because they're not real people. The article ends like this, editors note, the article previously reported on some videos that appeared to have been generated by AI without noting that. This has been corrected. The problem was not that you didn't note it. The problem was that you got fucking tricked and you and you reported like it was real. You reported the comments from imaginary people and said that this is something that real people are posting on social media and that says something about, you know,

what the policy should be. It was a previous, it was a total fabrication, your other story. So it wasn't as if you just like didn't note sourcing. You know, it wasn't like you quoted something, you know, from. an old book and you know you forgot to include the footnote like no that that was not it the issues was not the footnotes uh the issue was that the entire article was was fake it was based on a fucking racist gag you got tricked and you pass along his news okay great job fox anyway um we'll keep keeping an eye on this a lot of news around um what is happening with the uh snap

benefits. We'll be back for more. I just, you know, I had to share this with it. It just was too crazy. It's just too crazy to think like, here's what we are. Fox News is so far on the bend that they're literally posting articles and commentary about AI videos pretending like the people are real because they want to advance like these, you know, fucking hurtful derogatory narratives and stereotypes about some black women who receive SNAP

when the reality is huge it's actually a lot of working white megapore that are receiving SNAP so and the whole thing is just it's too on the nose but here we are

this is where we are in this world these days so everybody I appreciate it appreciate you we'll be back with more Trump's on 60 minutes tomorrow so we'll probably

have a reaction to that and who the hell knows what else the news cycle will ring we'll see you soon Mr. Monopoly here Monopoly is back at McDonald's. Register in the McDonald's app, so you're ready to... Get your bag!

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