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Purported Deepfake Video Allegedly Claims Kyiv's Assassination Plan Against President Emmanuel Macron
- Occurred
- Feb 13, 2024
- Published
- Feb 14, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A purported deepfake video reportedly claimed France 24 reported a Kyiv plot to assassinate French President Macron. This reported fake news was debunked by France 24, which confirmed the video was altered and did not air any such report.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- VKontakte
- Russian media outlets
- Pro-Russian Telegram channels
- Pro-Kremlin actors
Harmed parties
- Julien Fanciulli
- General public
- France 24
- General public of France
- Epistemic integrity
- Ukraine-France relations
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Synthetic media used to spread false political claims, debunked by news outlet.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8