Randy Fine’s primary opponent pushes openly antisemitic,…
Florida congressional candidate Dan Bilzerian is facing widespread condemnation for using AI-generated videos to promote antisemitic tropes against…
- Incident date
- Aug 2026
- Target
- Randy Fine
In the closing days of the Florida primary season, congressional candidate Dan Bilzerian has utilized AI-generated content to launch a series of antisemitic attacks against his primary opponent, Rep. Randy Fine. The campaign rhetoric, which includes explicit praise for Adolf Hitler, has drawn bipartisan condemnation from across the political spectrum.
What happened
Dan Bilzerian released a two-and-a-half-minute AI-generated video that employs various synthetic visual techniques to attack Rep. Randy Fine. The video features imagery of Fine hugging a bag of money and animated sequences showing horns growing from his forehead. Throughout the clip, the synthetic content uses antisemitic slurs and tropes, accusing Fine of prioritizing Israel over the United States and making unfounded allegations regarding the abuse of children.
Most notably, the AI video explicitly references the Holocaust, using footage of Hitler to ask viewers if they should "revisit that Austrian painter’s opinions." Following the initial release, Bilzerian posted a second AI-generated video attempting to discredit an incident where a swastika was spray-painted on a campaign sign belonging to Fine.
In response, Rep. Fine condemned the content, stating that the campaign is attempting to embrace the "kind of Nazism that led to the Holocaust." The videos have triggered a massive wave of denunciation from prominent political figures, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Rick Scott, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. A coalition of Jewish House Democrats also issued a formal statement condemning the "grotesque" nature of the campaign, urging social media platforms to remove the content and calling for a broader disavowal of Bilzerian's tactics. Representative Greg Landsman publicly questioned the origins of the synthetic content, asking which AI company was utilized to produce the material and criticizing social media platforms for the potential amplification of the hateful content to millions of users.