Skip to Content
logologo
AI Incident Database
Donate
Discover
Submit
  • Welcome to the AIID
  • Table View
  • List view
  • Entities
  • Taxonomies
  • Spatial View
  • Blog
  • AI News Digest
  • Random Incident
  • Sign Up
Discover
Submit
  • Welcome to the AIID
  • Table View
  • List view
  • Entities
  • Taxonomies
  • Spatial View
  • Blog
  • AI News Digest
  • Random Incident
  • Sign Up
Entities

Zyon Lewis

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 17932 Report
Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

2026-10-20

Two purported deepfake videos circulated on X using former student Zyon Lewis's identity to allegedly falsely accuse Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of sexual assault. Lewis said the person depicted was not him and denied the allegation. Researchers linked the videos to the Russia-aligned Storm-1516 influence operation. The original account was suspended, but copies continued to circulate.

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

Storm-1516

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Information manipulation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Deepfake creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Synthetic media creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Information manipulation actors in Russia

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Synthetic video generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

James Talarico

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

political candidates

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Politicians

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Politicians in the United States

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Public figures

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Targets of online impersonation

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Voters

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Voters in the United States

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Democratic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Deepfake technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Synthetic video generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

More
Entity

Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1793
    2 Reports

    Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault

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
  • 97d184c