Ahead of the European Parliament elections in June, fake news is becoming increasingly prevalent online. DW fact check explores four examples of how cybercriminals are spreading disinformation.
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In April, users claiming to be nieces of Marine Le Pen posted videos on TikTok promoting her far-right National Rally (RN) party.
The makers of the videos used artificial intelligence (AI) to superimpose pictures of the faces of Marine Le Pen and her actual niece, Marion Marechal, onto images of other people.
In April of this year, just two months before the European elections, the matter popped up again on Hungarian social media, repurposed to form the basis of a disinformation campaign about EU regulations permitting insect-based food ingredients.
Some posts have suggested European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has a family photo album that contains a picture of her grandmother shaking hands with Adolf Hitler.
It claimed that the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) candidate for Europe, Maximilian Krah, owed his eight children over €80,000 ($86,226) in child support, which triggered outrage amid critics of the far-right party.
Several fact-checking sites reported that Bild had never published the article in question and explained that cybercriminals had created a fake website that imitated the original, in what’s called spoofing.
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In April, users claiming to be nieces of Marine Le Pen posted videos on TikTok promoting her far-right National Rally (RN) party.
The makers of the videos used artificial intelligence (AI) to superimpose pictures of the faces of Marine Le Pen and her actual niece, Marion Marechal, onto images of other people.
In April of this year, just two months before the European elections, the matter popped up again on Hungarian social media, repurposed to form the basis of a disinformation campaign about EU regulations permitting insect-based food ingredients.
Some posts have suggested European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has a family photo album that contains a picture of her grandmother shaking hands with Adolf Hitler.
It claimed that the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) candidate for Europe, Maximilian Krah, owed his eight children over €80,000 ($86,226) in child support, which triggered outrage amid critics of the far-right party.
Several fact-checking sites reported that Bild had never published the article in question and explained that cybercriminals had created a fake website that imitated the original, in what’s called spoofing.
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