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Cloned audio of the leading Progressive Slovakia candidate, released 48 hours before polls opened, fabricated a conversation about rigging the election. The case that proved late-cycle audio deepfakes can influence results.

An AI-generated image of Pope Francis wearing a Balenciaga-style puffer jacket went viral. Not an attack in any fraud sense — but the case that taught millions of people to assume viral imagery might be synthetic.

AI-generated images of Donald Trump being arrested circulated widely before his actual indictment. A case that demonstrated how AI images can preemptively frame narratives — and how weak the default platform defenses were.

Early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a deepfake video depicted President Zelensky calling on Ukrainian soldiers to surrender. A crude fake that still reached millions — and set the playbook for wartime deepfake response.

Jordan Peele and BuzzFeed released an early deepfake PSA depicting President Obama saying things he never said — to teach the public what was coming. Still the most-cited educational deepfake.