Netanyahu and Eisenkot Camps Flood X With AI Deepfakes Days Before Israeli Election
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With Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot in a virtual tie before Tuesday's Israeli general election, both camps are pushing AI-generated deepfake videos on X — including fabricated footage of Netanyahu confronting his pre-Oct 7, 2023 failures and material casting the opposition as sympathetic to Arab parties. Likud repurposed bots previously used against the Iranian government to boost pro-Netanyahu propaganda, and built 'Victory 26' to track and target non-voters after the Elections Committee restricted its earlier 'Elector' app over privacy concerns.
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"Likud will use a new app named Victory 26, which "would allow Likud activists and officials to determine which areas have the lowest turnout, manually take the names of people who have cast their votes, and then target …
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Originally reported by aljazeera.com
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