{"id":139681,"date":"2025-10-23T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139681\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:52:10","slug":"deepfake-video-of-irish-presidential-candidate-rocks-campaign-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139681\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepfake video of Irish presidential candidate rocks campaign \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RT\u00c9 made mention of other deepfake videos, either attacking Connolly or alleging spoiled ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Meta has removed some videos related to Connolly for a violation of its voter interference policy. RT\u00c9 reported that a YouTube channel sharing the videos was removed. Google didn\u2019t comment on a request from POLITICO in time for publication.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission acknowledged the existence of the Irish deepfake video in a press briefing on Wednesday and said it is tracking the matter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of the deepfake video, we\u2019re in touch with the Irish authorities,\u201d European Commission spokesperson Markus Lammert said.<\/p>\n<p>Elections are a matter of national competence, he pointed out, but he added that under the EU\u2019s social media law, the Digital Services Act, platforms \u201cmust protect the integrity of elections on their services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 made mention of other deepfake videos, either attacking Connolly or alleging spoiled ballots. Meta has removed some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,12384,18,11903,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,1109,5,37216,827,1114,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-139681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-digital-services-act","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-media","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-platforms","25":"tag-services","26":"tag-social-media","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115421456122565803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}