Description: Videos reported as AI-generated were allegedly circulated by Gazeta Bota and Peja LIVE on Facebook before Kosovo's June 7, 2026 elections, posing as citizen interviews and media reports. The clips reportedly manufactured voter sentiment by presenting synthetic interviewees as real citizens in Kosovo media-style election reports.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Deepfake technology developers , Synthetic audio generation technology developers and Video generation technology developers developed an AI system deployed by Deepfake creators , Information manipulation actors , Information manipulation actors in Kosovo , Gazeta Bota and Peja LIVE, which harmed General public , General public of Kosovo , Voters , Voters in Kosovo , Democratic integrity , Journalistic integrity , Epistemic integrity , Facebook users , Facebook users in Kosovo and Social media users.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Social media platforms , Deepfake technology , Synthetic audio generation technology , Facebook and Video generation technology
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1522
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-05-13
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Artificial intelligence-generated videos, disguised as authentic media reports, have begun to circulate massively on social networks in the run-up to the June 7 elections in Kosovo. Through the use of "deepfake" techniques, these materials …
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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