Overview

• Rep. Riley Moore of West Virginia posted an AI-generated video that purported to show Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz wearing a “F*ck Trump” shirt and dancing on a mall escalator.
• Moore wrote that a person behaving like the figure in the clip should be reported to police and banned from the mall.
• X attached a community note to the post indicating the video was artificial, stating that it was clearly AI.
• Reporters and users mocked Moore for sharing the fake, with Semafor’s Dave Weigel joking that the streak since a lawmaker fell for AI was reset to zero.
• Commentators questioned Moore’s suggestion that the depicted conduct could be jailable and noted the post remained up for hours after the labeling.