Residents are left baffled after Kari Lake films video to promote new Arizona politics watchdog media site…but not all is as it seems

14:14 EDT 24 Mar 2024 , updated 15:00 EDT 24 Mar 2024

Arizona residents have been left baffled after Kari Lake appeared to film videos promoting a new Arizona watchdog media site and praising journalists. 

Lake, who is running for US Senate as a Republican and is a former gubernatorial candidate, is a staunch supporter of former president Donald Trump. She has denied she lost the 2020 governor’s race and has long blasted the media. 

But last week she appeared in three videos on the new site Arizona Agenda under the banner ‘Kari Lake does us a solid.’

Lake promotes the site and the work of the journalists of the site founded in 2021 by former New York Times journalist Hank Stephenson. 

The videos, however, are not what they seem as they are ultra-realistic deepfakes. The site created them to not only promote itself, but to highlight the danger AI-generated videos pose for the November election. 

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