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Rebecca Cooke

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 17211 Report
Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

2026-08-04

Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden repeatedly posted Grok Imagine-generated videos depicting Democratic challenger Rebecca Cooke saying statements she did not make. Cooke called the clips deceptive and defamatory; Van Orden's campaign described them as obvious AI-generated satire. Cooke's attorneys later sent a cease-and-desist alleging the videos were intended to mislead voters and harm her reputation.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Derrick Van Orden

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Deepfake creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Synthetic media creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Public figures

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Politicians

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Politicians in the United States

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Information manipulation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Information manipulation actors in the United States

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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xAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Synthetic video generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Synthetic audio generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Political candidates targeted by deepfakes

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Voters

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Grok Imagine

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Synthetic video generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Synthetic media technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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X (Twitter)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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Synthetic audio generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1721
    1 Report

    Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden Reportedly Posted Grok Imagine Deepfakes Depicting Opponent Rebecca Cooke Saying Things She Did Not Say

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