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GAN Faces Deployed by The BL's Fake Account Network to Push Pro-Trump Content on Meta Platforms
- Occurred
- Nov 12, 2019
- Published
- Dec 21, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A large network of pages, groups, and fake accounts having GAN-generated face photos associated with The BL, a US-based media outlet, reportedly bypassed Facebook moderation systems to push "pro-Trump" narratives on its platform and Instagram.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- The BL
Harmed parties
- Instagram users
- Facebook users
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: GAN-generated faces used in fake accounts to spread political content on social media platforms.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8