DeepfakeHigh severity · automated estimate
Storm-1516 Produces Very Likely Deepfake Videos of Student Accusing Democratic Senate Candidate of Sexual Assault
- Occurred
- Oct 29, 2026
- Published
- Oct 29, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
We identified a very likely coordinated network of accounts across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, X, and YouTube that is impersonating US Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald, who serves in the Department of Justice’s ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1793#8220)
Automated classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Classifier note (automated): Coordinated deepfake video campaign targeting political candidate with serious allegations.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8