The recent tweet of a doctored photo, turned into a GIF and nicknamed “Sloppy Joe”, of US presidential candidate Joe Biden¹ has prompted controversy over whether the image qualifies as a deepfake, which would make it the first used in a US election cycle. President Trump’s Twitter account retweeted the original post shortly thereafter which resulted in debate over whether the GIF was a deepfake, what the intention was, and whether it violated Twitter’s synthetic and manipulated media policy. Several prominent press outlets, including the Atlantic² and Motherboard³, went back and forth whether this was the first documented deepfake use in US politics.