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Network of Allegedly Fake Facebook Profiles with Purportedly AI-Generated Images Amplified Posts by Bulgaria's 'There Is Such a People' (ITN) Party
- Occurred
- Feb 22, 2026
- Published
- Apr 6, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A network of allegedly fake Facebook profiles using purportedly AI-generated profile images reportedly coordinated the spread of posts by members of Bulgaria's political party "There Is Such a People" (ITN) during the pre-election period. Reporting said the accounts repeatedly shared posts by ITN politician Pavela Mitova and ITN's leader Slavi Trifonov, helping make them appear highly engaging on Facebook and increasing their visibility.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Generative AI developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
Deployers
- Shte Ima Takuv Narod (Aneliya Yordanova) (Facebook profile)
- Nikola Savov (Facebook profile)
- Magdalena Kostova (Facebook profile)
Harmed parties
- Kelly Gale
- Ivan Tomanovich
- Ivan Hristanov
- General public of Bulgaria
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- Bulgarian voters
- Bulgarian Facebook users
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI-generated images used in fake profiles to amplify political content fits deepfake category with medium severity due to election interference concerns.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8