Fake Video Allegedly Misattributes False Claims to Former Student in Attack on Vice-Presidential Candidate Tim Walz
October 16, 2024
A viral video falsely accused Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz of misconduct by using the stolen identity of former student Matthew Metro. Circulated on X and other platforms, the video reached millions before being flagged for manipulation. U.S. intelligence later revealed it and three other similar events were part of the Russian disinformation campaign Storm-1516, whose aim is to disrupt the 2024 elections.
- Alleged deployer
- anonymous-x-user
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- tim-walz, matthew-metro
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/824
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.