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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 32, June 2021 ﺔﻴﺑﺮ #
information, such as what happened in the video call from a person claiming to be the
2020 US presidential elections. We also see Russian politician Leonid Volkov, a
many fake videos of Donald Trump, Barack famous member in opposition movement
Obama, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, of Putin and an assistant to the leader of
and Hillary Clinton, using generative the Russian opposition, Alexei Navalny,
adversarial networks (GANs), which are who was imprisoned by the Russian
special structures that include two deep neural government, and after discussions with the
networks that compete each others to identify European Union countries and other
the unique way of moving head face and political institutions, it was found out that
mouth that identifies the real person and these are nothing but deceivers who used
simulate his emotions and the way he say techniques of deepfake technology . They
words. have a long history from deceiving
The effect of deep fake technology on celebrities and politicians.
political speeches:
With the emergence of this technology and
the fall of many politicians as victims of it, Hence, deepfake techniques and media
such as Putin, Michelle Obama and Donald manipulated by artificial intelligence are
Trump, all politicians started to be afraid that used as a tool for political disinformation
such technology would negatively affect the and experts have warned against the so-
results and progress of the election process. called "information world", where the
Deepfake technology was the core of quality and availability of deepfakes
discussion of United States Senate Select makes it impossible for the public to
Committee of inelegance (SSCI) to discuss distinguish between Truth and fiction.
the security risks on national and electoral And while politics has already been hit by
security in the United States, warning of its deception in recent years, incidents always
bad effect on the 2020 elections. happen in videos and photos modified in
an old-fashioned way. However, the fear
This technology reached politicians in the of deepfake still haunts politics and
European Union as well, when several global politicians.
news agencies reported that a number of
European politicians had been deceived by a
Russian conspiracy where a group of
parliamentarians met in United Kingdom,
Estonia and Lithuania, and during their
meeting they received a
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