"deepfake"报道翻车俄勒冈新闻项目撤回涉华盛顿县候选人报道
非营利新闻机构"俄勒冈新闻项目"10月20日撤回了一篇关于华盛顿县委员候选人娜菲莎·法伊的报道，并发布编者按承认错误。该报道10月19日发表，称一段在明尼阿波利斯10月10日活动上拍摄的视频是"deepfake"——视频显示法伊身后悬挂着一面倒挂的美国国旗，报道称右翼社交媒体账号用这段视频攻击身为索马里移民的法伊"不爱国"。
据编者按披露，10月16日该机构采访了正在竞选华盛顿县主席的法伊，法伊竞选团队的一名支持者随后提供了一段同一活动的视频，显示国旗是正挂的。但报道发表后，读者对两段冲突的画面提出质疑，该机构随后获得的新图像证实，活动现场的国旗确实是倒挂的。
为此，原文已撤下，该机构表示"对这一错误深表遗憾"。此事正值中期选举冲刺阶段，华盛顿县主席选举备受关注。
倒挂国旗在美国政治语境中常被用作抗议象征，这一细节的真伪直接关系到对候选人的评价，也凸显了选举季信息核实的难度。
"Deepfake" Story Backfires: Oregon News Project Retracts Report on Washington County Candidate
The nonprofit Oregon News Project retracted a story on October 20 about Washington County commission candidate Nafisa Faye and published an editor's note admitting the error. The story, published October 19, had called a video filmed at an October 10 event in Minneapolis a "deepfake": the video showed an upside-down American flag hanging behind Faye, and the story said right-wing social media accounts were using the video to attack Faye, a Somali immigrant, as "unpatriotic." According to the editor's note, the outlet interviewed Faye — who is running for Washington County chair — on October 16, and a supporter from her campaign then provided video of the same event showing the flag hanging right-side up.
But after the story ran, readers questioned the conflicting images, and new images the outlet subsequently obtained confirmed that the flag at the event was indeed hung upside down. The original story has been taken down, and the outlet said it "deeply regrets the error." The episode comes in the final stretch of the midterm campaign, with the Washington County chair race drawing close attention.
An upside-down flag is often used as a protest symbol in American politics, and whether this detail was real bears directly on how the candidate is judged — and underscores how hard verification becomes in election season.
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图片来源：图：位于 Salem 的俄勒冈州议会大厦。图片来源：Wikimedia Commons / Photo: The Oregon State Capitol in Salem. Source: Wikimedia Commons
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