Description: In February 2020, India's BJP used purported deepfake videos of party leader Manoj Tiwari to influence voters in the Delhi legislative election. The videos reportedly showed Tiwari delivering scripted campaign messages in Haryanvi and English, which are languages he did not speak, by altering his lip movements and voice. Distributed via thousands of WhatsApp groups, the deepfakes reportedly reached millions of voters without disclosure.
Editor Notes: This incident reportedly took place in February 2020. The incident ID was created 01/10/2026.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown deepfake technology developers and Unknown voice cloning technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Unknown disinformation actors , Unknown disinformation actors in India , BJP Delhi IT Cell and The Ideaz Factory, which harmed General public , General public of India , Epistemic integrity , Manoj Tiwari and Electoral integrity.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown deepfake technology , Unknown voice cloning technology , Social media platforms and WhatsApp
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1336
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2020-02-07
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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On February 7, a day ahead of the Legislative Assembly elections in Delhi, two videos of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Manoj Tiwari criticising the incumbent Delhi government of Arvind Kejriwal went viral on WhatsApp. While one…
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