Election deepfake falsely links Kemal Kilicdaroglu to PKK

Turkey presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu was falsely linked to the militant Kurdish organisation PKK using a manipulated deepfake video, prompting accusations of electoral interference. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan showed the video, which purportedly showed Kilicdaroglu giving way to PKK founder Murat Karayilan, at a political rally. Research shows it had been manipulated by combining two separate videos with different backgrounds and content. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by the US, EU and Turkey. Kilicdaroglu responded by publicly accusing Russ ia of spreading deepfakes, including 'tapes that were exposed in this country yesterday.' The Kremlin denied the accusation. Earlier, Muharrem Ince , another Presidential candidate, withdrew after the release of an alleged sex tape, which he accused of being a deepfake designed to damage his reputation and campaign. Deepfake Deepfakes (a portmanteau of ' deep learning ' and 'fake') are images, videos, or audio which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence tools, and which may depict real or non-existent people. They are a type of synthetic media. Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 Unknown Documents 📃 Kemal Kilicdaroglu campaign video (original) Murat Karayilan video (original) Operator: Government of Turkey Developer: Government of Russia Country: Turkey Sector: Politics Purpose: Damage reputation Technology: Deepfake - video; Machine learning Issue: Mis/disinformation Fact check 🚩 Deutsche Welle (DW) (2023). Fact check: Turkey's Erdogan shows false Kilicdaroglu video

Date it happened

2023-05-01

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