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Russian Disinformation Campaign Allegedly Used Fake News Site 'KBSF-San Francisco News' and Deepfake Video to Falsely Accuse Kamala Harris of 2011 Hit-and-Run

September 2, 2024

A Russian disinformation campaign is suspected of employing a fabricated news site, 'KBSF-San Francisco News', and an artificial intelligence (AI)-produced deepfake video to falsely implicate Kamala Harris in a 2011 hit-and-run incident in San Francisco. The deepfake incorporated a fictional African-American victim, whose AI-generated testimony was disseminated extensively on social media platforms. Microsoft detected the deception as part of Russian cyber influence activities targeting the 2024 U.S. election, with the website registered in Iceland.

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Alleged deployer
storm-1516, kbsf-san-francisco-news, john-mark-dougan, government-of-russia
Alleged developer
john-mark-dougan, government-of-russia
Alleged harmed parties
kamala-harris, general-public-of-the-united-states, general-public, democracy, epistemic-integrity, journalistic-integrity, media-integrity, journalism, national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/969

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