Incident #1513
Dimal Basha's Likeness Was Reportedly Used in Purportedly Fake AI-Generated Video After Kosovo Parliament Speaker Election
Description
Minutes after Kosovo MPs elected Vetëvendosje's Dimal Basha as Parliament Speaker, a purportedly AI-generated Facebook video used his likeness to claim he was the father of Kosovo's Ashkali community, a Roma-related minority group that has faced long-running discrimination and political marginalization. The video reportedly received more than 80,000 views in under eight hours.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- information-manipulation-actors
- deepfake-creators
- information-manipulation-actors-in-kosovo
Alleged Developers
- deepfake-technology-developers
Harmed Parties
- national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
- general-public-of-kosovo
- general-public
- epistemic-integrity
- dimal-basha
- democratic-integrity
- ashkali-people
- ashkali-community-in-kosovo
- minority-groups