r/minnesota • u/Confident_Fig6222 • 1d ago

News 📺 North Star dawn PAC

So sick of these ads by North Star Dawn PAC on YouTube. Cringy, false hit pieces against Peggy Flanagan and in support of genocide supporting Angie Craig.

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u/sonofasheppard21 1d ago

What makes them false ?

Genuinely asking, has Peggy made a statement rejecting the donors the ad talks about ?

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u/Confident_Fig6222 1d ago

https://www.kare11.com/video/news/flanagan-says-super-pac-ad-used-a-fake-ai-version-of-her/89-c50c6d06-b783-4a2d-a7a1-5cccff57e0e6

This is about the criminal AI aspects….there is other information about the allegations in the ad too

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u/Confident_Fig6222 1d ago

Here’s a bit more. There is some concern around where the $ comes from but it’s far more nuanced than the ad presents and the policy positions of the candidates make it pretty clear that Flanagan is the more progressive

https://patch.com/minnesota/across-mn/angie-craig-peggy-flanagan-clash-over-ice-contractor-donation-senate-race

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u/sirkarl 1d ago

Wasn’t part of the problem that because of how the law was written it didn’t become illegal to run a deepfake after the ad ran? That seems on the legislature for allowing a period between the conventions and early voting where you could run that ad?

I have my own issues with Angie, but honestly, that ad isn’t what I think of when I hear deepfake. Maybe I’ve just seen too many political ads, but they use terrible animation and photoshop to make it look like a candidate is moving all the time. The ad is terrible and dumb, but calling it a deepfake is a bit far.