Skip to Content
logologo
AI Incident Database
Open TwitterOpen RSS FeedOpen FacebookOpen LinkedInOpen GitHub
Open Menu
Donate
Discover
Submit
  • Welcome to the AIID
  • Discover Incidents
  • Spatial View
  • Table View
  • List view
  • Entities
  • Taxonomies
  • Submit Incident Reports
  • Submission Leaderboard
  • Blog
  • AI News Digest
  • Risk Checklists
  • Random Incident
  • Sign Up
Collapse
Discover
Submit
  • Welcome to the AIID
  • Discover Incidents
  • Spatial View
  • Table View
  • List view
  • Entities
  • Taxonomies
  • Submit Incident Reports
  • Submission Leaderboard
  • Blog
  • AI News Digest
  • Risk Checklists
  • Random Incident
  • Sign Up
Collapse
Entities

Fraudulent investment websites

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 15271 Report
Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

2026-06-08

Purported AI-generated ads on X reportedly depicted Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in fabricated physical confrontations on a BBC Question Time-style set. The ads allegedly used the staged Bailey-Farage clash to present an investment scam as legitimate BBC-style financial journalism.

More

Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

Entity

Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Investment scam operators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Malvertising actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

X (Twitter) ad buyers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

News media impersonation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Image generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Video generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Synthetic media technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Andrew Bailey

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Nigel Farage

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Potential investors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

People targeted by financial scams

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

BBC

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

X (Twitter) users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Bank of England

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Image generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Video generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Synthetic media technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

X (Twitter)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

X (Twitter) advertising platform

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Fraudulent registration websites

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Forged news articles

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More
Entity

Counterfeit media branding

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1527
    1 Report

    Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

More

Research

  • Defining an “AI Incident”
  • Defining an “AI Incident Response”
  • Database Roadmap
  • Related Work
  • Download Complete Database

Project and Community

  • About
  • Contact and Follow
  • Apps and Summaries
  • Editor’s Guide

Incidents

  • All Incidents in List Form
  • Flagged Incidents
  • Submission Queue
  • Classifications View
  • Taxonomies

2026 - AI Incident Database

  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Open twitterOpen githubOpen rssOpen facebookOpen linkedin
  • 4445024