Alleged Deepfake Audio Depicts Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Ordering Military Action
April 24, 2024
A purported deepfake audio clip portraying Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordering an attack on China spread online in July 2024, fueling tensions in the West Philippine Sea. The Presidential Communications Office reportedly debunked it as fake, attributing it to foreign actors.
- Alleged deployer
- unknown-actors-targeting-ferdinand-marcos-jr., unknown-actors
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers, unknown-voice-cloning-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- philippines-china-relations, philippines, government-of-the-philippines, general-public-of-the-philippines, general-public-of-china, general-public, ferdinand-marcos-jr.
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/676
Data source
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