A genuine image of presidential candidate Catherine Connolly in Monaghan on Wednesday. The deepfake video was posted on Facebook, owned by Meta. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
A deepfake AI video purporting to show Catherine Connolly withdrawing from the presidential election was viewed almost 30,000 times before Facebook removed it.
The video, designed to look like an RTÉ news bulletin, was posted to an account called RTÉ News AI.
It was live for almost 12 hours and
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