Nigel Farage deepfake (Mar 2026)

Overseas "content farms" are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create social media posts about UK politics, including AI-generated images and videos of politicians in compromising and/or fabricated situations, such as being arrested or endorsing rivals. Several Welsh politicians were victims of deepfakes. Pages often depicted multiple politicians, including Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Zia Yusuf, in the same fake situation. There have also been videos created of Keir Starmer and Eluned Morgan kissing, and another of Rhun ap Iorwerth shouting "I love Reform". Davies-Jones was subjected to "horrific" deepfakes, including some showing her in "crude sexual positions" in underwear. Llŷr Powell had AI-generated videos of him and his colleagues which put words in his mouth, lying about his policies.