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A Purported Deepfake of Senator Elizabeth Warren Circulates Allegedly Saying Republicans Should Not Vote
- Occurred
- Feb 20, 2023
- Published
- Feb 27, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In February 2023, a purported deepfake of Senator Elizabeth Warren circulated on social media in which allegedly doctored footage of her from an MSNBC interview had her claiming that she believes Republicans should not vote.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- TikTok
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Republicans
- MSNBC
- General public
- Elizabeth Warren
- Democrats
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Synthetic media used to mislead public about politician's stance, causing controversy but no physical harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8