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Purported Deepfake Targets Olena Zelenska in Alleged Russian Disinformation Campaign
- Occurred
- Jul 3, 2024
- Published
- Jul 4, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A purported deepfake video falsely suggesting that Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, purchased a luxury car, reportedly circulated widely online. The video is reportedly part of a Russian-linked disinformation campaign aimed at undermining Ukraine and its supporters.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Verite Cachee France
- Russian-linked disinformation network
- Pro-Kremlin actors
- Misinformation spreaders
- Information manipulation actors
- Pro-Russian information manipulation actors
Harmed parties
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Olena Zelenska
- Government of Ukraine
- General public of Ukraine
- General public of the United States
- General public of the European Union
- Bugatti
- Relations between the United States and Ukraine
- Epistemic integrity
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves a deepfake video used in a disinformation campaign, causing reputational harm but no physical injury or mass casualty.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8