With Turkey’s upcoming presidential election on May 14, the current Turkish government is facing some serious criticism.
The head of the Turkish Opposition Party (CHP), Tuncay Özkan, claims to have learned that the government will be creating deepfake propaganda material targeting the CHP on the DarkWeb ahead of the elections.
According to Özkan, the Turkish Communications Agency had contacted opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu to inform them that they would create fake videos targeting the opposition party on the Dark Web.
The videos include sound and image content manipulated using artificial intelligence (AI) technology known as deepfakes, and Özkan pays people who will carry out the manipulation in BTC.
Özkan said that after what happened, they considered it a violation of democracy, human rights and the law. Because of their conscience, they told us that we also had a list.