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Biden donors put up $10 million in effort to compete with Trump campaign’s viral videos: report

Biden donors put up million in effort to compete with Trump campaign’s viral videos: report

President Biden’s allies have donated at least $10 million in an effort to compete against the Trump campaign’s prolific use of social media, according to a new report. Leaders at Biden’s top re-election super PAC, Future Forward USA Action, fear that the current president is losing the viral video war to Trump and his allies, Reuters reported. Trump and his fellow Republicans have bombarded social media with videos of Biden freezing or otherwise appearing old at public events for weeks. The Democratic super PAC boasts supporters like Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman. The effort aims to help Biden’s campaign understand how social media algorithms work, in addition to collaborating with pro-Biden influencers. “Future Forward is around to help solve problems, and TikTok is a problem and the group is reasonably trying to solve that problem,” one Democrat source told Reuters. BIDEN’S ‘PERPETUAL STATE OF CONFUSION’ ON DISPLAY IN NORMANDY AMID RISING COGNITIVE QUESTIONS Since February, when the Biden campaign officially joined the TikTok platform, it has posted more than 200 times and garnered just over 380,000 followers. Trump joined TikTok barely two weeks ago but has already accumulated 6.4 million followers. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has been leaning into Biden’s age issues by sharing footage of him freezing up or appearing confused at public events.  The White House has condemned the clips as “cheap fakes,” but there is little evidence to suggest the clips have been altered in a deceptive way. SOCIAL MEDIA MOCKS BIDEN BEING LED OFFSTAGE BY FIRST LADY The “cheap fakes” line has proven to be the White House’s primary defense against embarrassing videos of Biden in recent weeks. KARINE JEAN-PIERRE DOUBLES DOWN ON ‘CHEAP FAKE’ BIDEN VIDEOS: ‘SO MUCH MISINFORMATION’ The term was used in some news articles as early as 2019, but there were significantly more this week following the videos on social media of Biden. Not everyone is buying the explanation, however. This is all part of “election slogans and buzzwords,” according to Heritage Foundation tech researcher Jake Denton. “It’s very clear what’s going on here,” Denton told Fox News Digital. “They’re trying to push a new term underneath the school of misinformation to try and pressure social media companies to take action on videos of this nature.” “This kind of requires a ramp-up stage where you allege that something is a ‘cheap fake,’ or that it’s malicious in some way related to misinformation, and then you have essentially the evidence, the fact pattern, whatever, to go and push the social media companies with takedown requests, because it’s misinformation regarding an election. So to me, that’s kind of the seed that’s being planted here.” Reuters contributed to this report.

Biden’s latest border order may embolden migrants to flout immigration laws, commit marriage fraud

Biden’s latest border order may embolden migrants to flout immigration laws, commit marriage fraud

Top immigration experts are hammering the Biden administration over its plan to establish so-called “parole-in-place” qualifications for illegal immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens. The idea of parole-in-place stemmed from a memo crafted by President Bill Clinton in 1998 and has been used since 2016 to categorize non-citizen immediate family members of U.S. service members. A forthcoming executive order expanding the construct is expected to shield as many as half a million illegal immigrants from deportation. Former Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan said the move will cause further damage to the U.S. and lead to an uptick in marriage fraud – as the policy is set to focus on spouses. BORDER RANCHER RECORDS 3,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IMAGES ON CAMERA “This administration has done nothing to secure the border – they’re playing a shell game,” Homan said. “This is just another enticement… for more illegal aliens to cross the border to take advantage of a giveaway program.” Homan, who served in the Trump administration, previously said he hopes to help establish a “historic deportation program” if the real estate mogul is elected in November. He told reporters the parole-in-place program will incentivize illegal immigrants to venture across the southern border and simply “hide out” until a program like this comes along to provide them amnesty. “A record number of migrants are dead, a record number of American citizens are dead, a record number of terrorists have crossed the border. And what’s your focus? Let’s get another giveaway program, which is going to entice more people to come. This is nothing but a political ploy,” he said. There are several conditions for qualifying for the program – a key stipulation being that the spouse must have resided in the U.S. for at least 10 years, have a legally valid marriage to a U.S. citizen and must have a clean criminal history.  Joe Edlow, former acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), added that federal estimates of parole-in-place leading to upwards of 500,000 qualifying individuals is, at best, a minimum figure. “From my perspective, there is absolutely no other amount of amnesty that I would support or accept… there will be no integrity if we continue to allow people to flagrantly flaunt the immigration laws,” said Edlow, who also served as chief counsel for USCIS. ‘GREEN’ GOVERNANCE IS THE NEW GUISE FOR ‘MERCANTILISM’ AND WILL LEAD TO GLOBAL INSTABILITY: HERITAGE PRESIDENT “They say 500,000. I think we’ve seen other estimates up to 1.1 million. But the bottom line is we don’t actually know yet what this [policy] is ultimately going to include.” In Edlow’s view, the Biden administration essentially has “shut down” immigration enforcement for four years, so the actual figures on how many people will be permitted to remain on U.S. soil via parole-in-place is indeterminate. Another expert on the issue said that whether parole-in-place allows 500,000 or many more people to come to or stay in the U.S., it essentially creates a 51st state. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Heritage Foundation President Dr. Kevin Roberts previously served as a college president in Wyoming – the 50th most populous state. He suggested the Biden administration will be essentially adding another collective population between it and 49th-place Vermont. “[The White House] has articulated and will soon release details of what we think is going to be the largest mass amnesty scheme in American history. That’s not hyperbole. It’s true,” said Roberts. “Having lived in Wyoming, adding the population of an entire state on top of more than 10 million illegal aliens who are already here is just more in fundamentally reordering America,” he said. As of the 2020 census, Wyoming had just over 576,000 residents, while Vermont had about 643,000. The White House and ICE did not respond to requests for comment for purposes of this story. 

White House ‘cheap fakes’ response to Biden videos part of push for social media censorship: expert

White House ‘cheap fakes’ response to Biden videos part of push for social media censorship: expert

As the general election season nears, White House officials are dismissing as “cheap fakes” a series of viral videos circulating on social media that purport to show President Biden in declining mental acuity. But a conservative tech expert counters that the videos are genuinely troubling and that the Biden shop’s pushback is part of an “election buzzword” effort aimed at pressuring social media platforms to “take action” against it. “The discredited right-wing critics of President Biden who spread other debunked lies, including that the 2020 election was stolen, are clearly threatened by the wide range of nonpartisan fact-checkers that have pulled back the curtain on the cheap fake smears they’re forced to rely on – since the last thing they want to discuss is Joe Biden’s agenda to cut taxes for working families and keep bringing violent crime to historic lows,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital. “Their panicked reaction to mainstream reporters, including at The Washington Post, NBC News, and PolitiFact, citing misinformation experts taking anti-Biden cheap fakes apart says more than we ever could,” Bates added. SOCIAL MEDIA MOCKS BIDEN BEING LED OFFSTAGE BY FIRST LADY In recent weeks, videos of Biden from various events appear to show him “confused.” One video shows him turning away from the group of world leaders at a D-Day anniversary event in France to speak to a parachuter. Another video appeared him being uncertain of when it was time to sit down, and another video this week showed him being led off the stage by former President Obama at a fundraising event.  On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre doubled down that these videos were “cheap fakes,” which the Media Manipulation Case Book defines as “altered media” that does not require advanced technology, like “photoshopping (including face swapping), lookalikes, as well as speeding and slowing video.”  The term was used in some news articles as early as 2019, but there were significantly more this week following the videos on social media of Biden. “It’s also very insulting to the folks, the viewers who are watching it. And so we believe we have to call that out. We’ve been calling it ‘cheap fakes.’ That is something that came directly from the media outlets in calling it that, the fact-checkers … calling it that. And so we’re certainly going to be really, really clear about that as well. And calling it out from where we are, from where we stand,” Jean-Pierre told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday. KARINE JEAN-PIERRE DOUBLES DOWN ON ‘CHEAP FAKE’ BIDEN VIDEOS: ‘SO MUCH MISINFORMATION’ Not everyone is buying the explanation, however. This is all part of “election slogans and buzzwords,” according to Heritage Foundation tech researcher Jake Denton. “It’s very clear what’s going on here,” Denton told Fox News Digital. “They’re trying to push a new term underneath the school of misinformation to try and pressure social media companies to take action on videos of this nature.” The term “cheap fake” is also being used just a week before Biden is scheduled to debate former President Trump, the GOP front-runner in the general election. “This kind of requires a ramp-up stage where you allege that something is a ‘cheap fake,’ or that it’s malicious in some way related to misinformation, and then you have essentially the evidence, the fact pattern, whatever, to go and push the social media companies with takedown requests, because it’s misinformation regarding an election. So to me, that’s kind of the seed that’s being planted here.” Denton additionally labeled “misinformation experts” under the umbrella of “pseudo-science” born from “digital politics.” Failed academics who then try to rebrand themselves have found a home in this emerging area online, Denton said, at independent fact-check websites and organizations, and even media outlets. BIDEN’S ‘PERPETUAL STATE OF CONFUSION’ ON DISPLAY IN NORMANDY AMID RISING COGNITIVE QUESTIONS “At the end of the day, there’s really not a lot of science to it,” Denton said. “They’re experts, but what are they really analyzing? There is truth that there’s a need for expertise in deepfake production, but when it comes to something like a cheap fake or just the broader term of misinformation, you’re largely just sifting through junk on social media and saying what’s real and what isn’t; it’s not really a very scientific or professional exercise.” Denton continued that the administration’s intention is to “gaslight” the American public into believing that what they see on social media misrepresents his current state. However, the reality is that the videos accurately reflect his current cognitive ability, he said, and urged people to “reject these terms and buzzwords and just assess the videos as they are, because they’re very damning.” “It looks horrible because it is,” he said. The president’s mental acuity has become the center of political discourse this month after a bombshell Washington Journal report, which the White House dismissed, revealed that many lawmakers on Capitol Hill had questions about Biden’s mental acuity after many said his aging was apparent in private meetings.

‘Life and death’: House GOP faces mounting pressure to target DEI in medical schools

‘Life and death’: House GOP faces mounting pressure to target DEI in medical schools

FIRST ON FOX: More than 50 conservative groups are urging the House of Representatives to vote on a bill to block medical schools from weighing diversity as an admissions factor. “Prioritizing the teaching of the political and social ideology at the heart of DEI, to the exclusion or expense of academic excellence, has life and death consequences for millions of patients,” they argued. “This bill takes a critical first step in reorienting medical education towards its noble, life-saving mission.” The groups – 52 in total and include Do No Harm, Tea Party Patriots Action, Heritage Action, Physicians for Reform and others – sent a letter this week urging House Education and Workforce Committee Chair Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., to advance the bill through her panel and for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to bring it to the House floor. Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., introduced the EDUCATE Act in March alongside Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio. It’s co-sponsored by 45 of their fellow House Republicans. CDC GIVES GUIDANCE FOR TRANS PEOPLE ‘CHESTFEEDING’ KIDS, ACCUSED OF FAILING TO CONSIDER POSSIBLE HEALTH RISKS Murphy is the only actively practicing surgeon in Congress. He said the bill “compels medical schools and accrediting agencies to uphold colorblind admissions processes and prohibits the coercion of students who hold certain political opinions.” “Diversity strengthens medicine, but not if it’s achieved through exclusionary practices,” Murphy said when introducing the bill. The conservative groups who led the new letter to Johnson and Foxx said too great of a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in medical school training “compromises the quality of medical professionals we produce and undermines the importance of scientific expertise and patient care.” JK ROWLING SAYS FRIENDS ‘BEGGED’ HER NOT TO SPEAK OUT ON TRANS ISSUE: ‘I WAS A HERETIC’ “With swift action we can restore confidence in medical professionals and roll back the negative consequences of DEI through a renewed focus on academic and professional excellence in medical schools, hospitals, doctors’ offices, and clinics across the country,” the letter read. A review of 50 top-ranked medical schools by Do No Harm found that 36 had asked applicants about their views or experience with DEI. The report described “many” as being “overt in asking applicants” if they agreed with racially charged statements. Critics of DEI in medical schools have argued that it could lead to otherwise top-tier candidates being rejected on the basis of race or discouraged from applying altogether, and the critics voiced concerns that DEI erodes the foundation of science that such an education is based on. ELITE UNIVERSITY ELIMINATES DEI HIRING REQUIREMENT: ‘THEY DON’T WORK’ Supporters on the progressive side, however, believe that DEI is critical to training medical professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds and equipping them to handle a larger spectrum of issues. The Association of American Medical Colleges, for example, argues on its website that “research shows that a diverse and inclusive biomedical research workforce with individuals from historically excluded and underrepresented groups is critical to gathering the range of perspectives needed to identify and solve the complex scientific problems of today and tomorrow.” Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson and Foxx for comment on the letter.