A Hawaii man who attended a school where Tim Walz taught was dismayed to see someone using his name to make a false allegation against the vice presidential candidate.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz greets supporters during a campaign rally, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Papillion, Neb.
Metro told The Post that Walz never taught him. He said he was irate that his name and biographical information were being used to bolster a lurid false accusation - and that he may be forever associated with it online. “It’s an invasion of my privacy and my personal life,” he said. The video containing the false allegation against Walz attracted little attention until several hours after it was posted, when it was repackaged and shared by an anonymously operated X account associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory. The video was also shared on Rumble, Truth Social and Gettr - all popular platforms among Trump supporters - by accounts that, according to information in their bios, are linked in a network that also includes the X account.
Others researched Metro in school yearbooks and on social media and concluded that the man in the video did not resemble photographs of the real Metro. Some X users dismissed the video as a “deepfake,” citing as evidence apparent visual distortions, including around the man’s mouth.
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