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Purportedly AI-Manipulated Videos Reportedly Targeted Former Kosovo MP Paris Guri and LDK Youth Members Before Snap Elections
- Occurred
- May 15, 2026
- Published
- May 15, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Purportedly AI-manipulated Facebook videos reportedly targeted former Kosovo MP Paris Guri and LDK Youth Forum members before Kosovo's June 7, 2026 snap elections. One video allegedly altered an original LDK image to show youth members holding milk bottles, while another reportedly fabricated Guri making a pro-Kurti statement.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
Deployers
- Synthetic media creators
- Information manipulation actors in Kosovo
- Information manipulation actors
- Deepfake creators
Harmed parties
- Voters in Kosovo
- Voters
- Social media users
- Paris Guri
- Kosovo parliamentary candidates
- General public of Kosovo
- General public
- Facebook users in Kosovo
- Facebook users
- Epistemic integrity
- Democratic League of Kosovo Youth Forum
- Democratic League of Kosovo
- Democratic integrity
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-manipulated videos used to deceive voters in an election context, fitting deepfake definition with medium severity due to political impact.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8