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President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video of himself promoting the baseless alien-based ‘medbed’ conspiracy theory – and the White House is defending him. Trump on Saturday evening re-posted ...

On Sept. 27, President Donald Trump shared an apparently AI-generated video of himself promoting a cure-all "medbed" – a medical conspiracy theory. The video, which has since been deleted from his ...