deep fake

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.

The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attorney attempted in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drawing far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph.

The effect exemplifies psychological reactance, in which the attempt to hide information instead makes it more interesting to seek out and propagate.

It's all smear and innuendo from Greggy:

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/12/12/matt-gaetzs-2008-dui-a...

Gaetz did talk then about the case, touting the dropped charges as proof he was innocent.

“I’m just pleased the truth has come out,” he told the Daily News reporter in 2008.

The details of Gaetz’s arrest and the subsequent dropping of the charges were the subject of a 2014 Tampa Bay Times story. Here’s the story, as it was published:

TALLAHASSEE — Rep. Matt Gaetz recently held himself out as a man who accepts responsibility for his mistakes.

He brought up his 2008 DUI arrest during a meeting last week of the House criminal justice committee, which he chairs. The topic: a bill that would keep mug shots of people who are charged with crimes off the Internet until they are convicted.

No wonder he doesn't want it on the internet.