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Fake Accounts Using GAN Faces Deployed by Propaganda Campaign on Social Platforms

AI Incident Database · article · Aug 12, 2020 · UTC

A pro-China propaganda campaign deployed fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube using GAN-synthesized faces to share and post comments on its content to gain wider circulation.

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incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2020-06-13T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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