From USA Today Fact Check
No, Tim Walz isn’t the cowboy dancer in this video | Fact check
By Andrew Byik
The claim: Video shows Tim Walz dancing with dollar bills tucked into belt
An Aug. 19 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) claims to show a man wearing glasses and a cowboy hat dancing with dollar bills tucked into his waistband.
“Recently found Video of Tampon Tim,” reads text in the video, which is a repost of a TikTok video and references a derogatory nickname for Walz.
The post was shared more than 2,300 times in a week...
Hany Farid, a professor who specializes in digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley, said the Facebook video has been manipulated to make the dancer look like Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president.
“This is clearly a face-swap deepfake in which the original face in the video was replaced with Gov. Walz’s face,” Farid said in an email. “There are clear visual artifacts throughout the video, particularly when the hand moves in front of the face...”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
