image above from newsguardrealitycheck.com
Emma Stone He’s angry with the Ukrainians, and with his colleague Bradley Cooper he describes them as “pigs from the slums of Europe”. Adam Sandler He’s angry with the Ukrainians, and with his colleague Brad Pitt he says that Zelensky would be “an unprincipled person” and an “ally of the Nazis”. Also Vin Diesel has it out for the Ukrainiansso much so that I claim that “I can’t stand them anymore”.
That succede a Hollywood? Why did all these actors and actresses decide all together, simultaneously and suddenly, to declare their dislike for Ukraine? Nothing happens, why none of these statements are true and instead they were all almost certainly created with the help of artificial intelligence.
Disinformation
Social and fake news: Donald Trump’s lies about Taylor Swift pass through Elon Musk’s AI
by Emanuele Capone
twitter: the video of the fake Adam Sandler
youtube: the video of the real Adam Sandler
Old interviews dubbed in French and German
The various videos, discovered by NewsGuard in the new report on disinformation online, are just a few examples of how pro-Russian propaganda increasingly uses new technologies to spread lies through social networks.
In none of these videos, the actors speak in their own language but in languages more understandable to those who are there the real recipients of the messages: Emma Stone and Adam Sandler use French, Vin Diesel expresses himself in German. All the videos were created starting from real interviews, redubbed to make them seem real, probably using one of those text-to-speech procedures that AIs are very good to do.
In particular, the Sandler video is a short excerpt from a 50-minute interview given by the actor to Variety a November 2019 (and still visible on YouTube) and says that Zelensky bought a villa in Germany that belonged to Goebbels, a hoax already denied in December 2023 and again a few weeks ago.
According to what has been reconstructed, the content was false first shared on Twitter by user Jessicaann Lindse, who has been registered on the platform since November 2023 but has only one post to his credit (the one about Sandler, in fact): despite having just 10 followers, the video has collected almost 4,500 views and has been retweeted almost 700 times. He was pushed, as they say in the jargon. Probably from Doppelganger, a pro-Russia disinformation collective active since 2022 (e even recently)no stranger to the creation of fake news with the use of artificial intelligence and which tends to direct its operations on social networks above all to users in France and Germany, but also in Ukraine and the United States.
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– 2024-05-04 12:36:56
