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As reported in Wednesday’s edition of Truth of Fake, FRANCE 24 has been the victim of a deepfake. The video in question, which manipulates an extract from one of our French-language news bulletins by using artificial intelligence to simulate the presenter’s voice, falsely claims that French President Emmanuel Macron postponed a trip to Ukraine over fears of a plot to assassinate him there. The video is still being spread on social media. Pro-Russian propaganda outlet Pravda.fr, which originally shared the deepfake, has responded to FRANCE 24’s debunk, falsely insisting that the claim about Macron is true. The use of deepfake technology is becoming increasingly common, as FRANCE 24’s Emerald Maxwell explains.
This story originally appeared on France24
