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AI-Generated Profiles Used in Disinformation Campaign Targeting Ukrainians
According to security reports by Meta, fictitious personas with GAN-generated profile pictures were used by people operating in Russia and Ukraine to push a disinformation campaign targeting Ukrainian social media users, and were taken down.
- Date it happened
- 2022-02-25
- Organisation involved
- individuals in the Donbass region, individuals in Russia, media organizations in Crimea
- Product, system or model
- Hacking group Ghostwriter used Facebook to target public figures in Ukraine. Hackers successfully gained access to targets' social media accounts and attempted to post YouTube videos from them portray
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