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Purported Deepfake Disinformation Aired on Russian State TV Allegedly Linking Ukraine to Moscow Attack
- Occurred
- Mar 23, 2024
- Published
- Mar 23, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Russian state television reportedly aired a fabricated video that appeared to imitate senior Ukrainian security officials and present a false admission of involvement in the Crocus City Hall massacre. The clip reportedly used elements from recent interviews combined with allegedly AI-generated audio to create a misleading confession. ISIS-K is reported to have publicly claimed responsibility, while independent analysts and governments have rejected the narrative promoted through the video.
Developers
- Russian state media
- NTV Channel
Deployers
- Russian state media
- NTV Channel
Harmed parties
- Ukraine
- Oleksiy Danilov
- Kyrylo Budanov
- Journalistic integrity
- Epistemic integrity
- General public
- General public of Russia
- General public of Ukraine
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated video and audio used to spread disinformation about a major terrorist attack.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8