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Purportedly AI-Manipulated Video Reportedly Misrepresented Bulgarian DPS Figure Ahmed Dogan and Spread via TikTok and Facebook
- Occurred
- Aug 28, 2024
- Published
- Sep 3, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A reportedly AI-manipulated video appeared to repurpose footage of Ahmed Dogan, honorary chairman of Bulgaria's Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), by overlaying synthetic audio that made him seem to urge party members to protest in defense of his wealth. The clip reportedly originated from a satirical TikTok account and was later circulated on Facebook by anonymous profiles.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Metodi Stoychev
- Georgi Georgiev
- Anonymous TikTok satire profile
- Information manipulation actors
Harmed parties
- Epistemic integrity
- Ahmed Dogan
- General public
- General public of Bulgaria
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-manipulated video with synthetic audio used to misrepresent a political figure, spreading misinformation on social media.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8