This Thursday marked three weeks since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Since then, the war has claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and pushed three million Ukrainians into exodus, according to the UN. For this reason, certain sectors of international opinion have pointed out that the solution would be to surrender.
In recent days, a video has even gone viral in which, apparently, Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, assured that his country was surrendering to the Russian invasion.
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We promptly reviewed and removed this video for violating our policy against misleading and manipulated media
The reality is that the clip, in which Zelensky is seen in a green shirt speaking in Ukrainian and in which It is seen in the subtitles that he asks his troops to surrender, it is false.
The news network ‘CNN’, which verified the misleading nature of the content, specified that this is a ‘deepfake’, which “combines the terms deep learning and false”, to deceive network users. It was also shocking that, apparently, it was done by means of artificial intelligence (AI).
Remember that you must verify in official media all information that you bring to your networks so as not to fall for this type of false news.
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Social networks removed the video
Social networks like Facebook and YouTube reported that the video was removed from their platforms for the same reason.
“We promptly reviewed and removed this video for violating our policy against misleading and manipulated media, and notified our peers on other platforms”, reported, through his Twitter account, the head of Meta security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher.
For her part, YouTube spokeswoman Ivy Choi said that, by violating the company’s disinformation policies, this content and its reloads were removed: “We allow this video if it provides sufficient educational, documentary, scientific or artistic context“.
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A Twitter spokesman said the company is working on tracing the origin of the video on the social network, taking steps to prevent it from being shared again.
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