DeepfakeMedium
Fake Accounts Using GAN Faces Deployed by Propaganda Campaign on Social Platforms
- Occurred
- Jun 13, 2020
- Published
- Aug 12, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A pro-China propaganda campaign deployed fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube using GAN-synthesized faces to share and post comments on its content to gain wider circulation.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Spamouflage Dragon
Harmed parties
- Facebook users
- YouTube users
- X (Twitter) users
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves GAN-synthesized faces used for deception in propaganda, fitting deepfake category with medium severity due to social manipulation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8