BJP uses deepfake videos of Manoj Tiwari in Delhi election campaign
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) used deepfake videos of its president Manoj Tiwari speaking Haryanvi and English to target voters in the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections. The videos were created by The Ideaz Factory using a lip-sync algorithm and distributed across WhatsApp groups, reaching approximately 15 million people. The party claims the videos were part of a positive campaign, but experts warn of the dangers of deepfakes in elections. The videos were not disclosed as deepfakes to viewers.
- Date it happened
- 2020-02-07
- Organisation involved
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
- Product, system or model
- lip-sync deepfake algorithm
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