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.
Editor Notes: Timeline note: The date for this incident ID is 08/26/2025; the incident ID was created 06/04/2026.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Deepfake technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Disinformation actors in Kosovo , Disinformation actors and Deepfake creators, which harmed Minorities , General public of Kosovo , General public , Epistemic integrity , Electoral integrity , Dimal Basha , Democratic integrity , Ashkali people , Ashkali community in Kosovo and National security and intelligence stakeholders.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1513
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-08-26
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Content generated by artificial intelligence, AI, is spreading rapidly across platforms like Facebook and TikTok, threatening the credibility of information in Kosovo and raising concerns of deeper polarisation and mistrust of the country's…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated content is spreading rapidly across platforms such as Facebook and TikTok, threatening the credibility of information in Kosovo and raising concerns about deeper polarization and distrust of the countr…
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