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The Guardian

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 61217 Report
Microsoft AI Poll Allegedly Causes Reputational Harm of The Guardian Newspaper

2023-10-31

An AI-generated poll by Microsoft, displayed alongside a Guardian article, inappropriately speculated on the cause of Lilie James's death, leading to public backlash and alleged reputational damage for The Guardian. Microsoft acknowledged the issue, subsequently deactivating such polls and revising its AI content policies.

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Incident 15262 Report
Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

2026-06-04

Sponsored Reddit ads reportedly impersonated the BBC, Financial Times, and The Guardian to promote purportedly fake AI investment platforms including Wencoin STX, Warrior Coin AI, and Nevo Coin. The campaign allegedly dressed the scam as legitimate financial journalism, using cloned publisher pages and deepfake-style news footage to pressure users into sharing contact details and making deposits.

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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.
 

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Microsoft

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 612
    17 Reports

    Microsoft AI Poll Allegedly Causes Reputational Harm of The Guardian Newspaper

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Family of Lilie James

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 612
    17 Reports

    Microsoft AI Poll Allegedly Causes Reputational Harm of The Guardian Newspaper

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Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Investment scam operators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Malvertising actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Reddit ad buyers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Cloned news site operators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Synthetic video generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Reddit users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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People targeted by financial scams

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Prospective investors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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BBC

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Entity

Financial Times

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Victims of deepfake-enabled fraud

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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People targeted for personal-data theft

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Entity

Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Reddit advertising platform

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Reddit

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Cloned news websites

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Fraudulent registration websites

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Personal-data collection systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Fake AI investment platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Wencoin STX

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Warrior Coin AI

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Nevo Coin

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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Synthetic video generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1526
    2 Reports

    Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

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