Wrote: Festim Rizanaj
A video has been posted on TikTok showing former US President Donald Trump speaking. The video claims that Trump is in favor of changing Kosovo's name to Dardania.
After re-searching the published video material, it was found that the video material was manipulated.
Link to the video material published by the "dardaniatimes" account on Tiktok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@dardaniatimes/video/7363318929973955845?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2-mxDg174afwdOtEeUDQQ-HuLjKAYQX4BovZ1e6aYNqQFDvQT79rTRHe4_aem_AXOKZrS3ADfK1UHQyCxYjB1fQTTDfhiPKQrb6B0wpfq_KaC-y8wYODmHAFyn5FeYxytYlVxQKzQxrS5boClnk5j0 (archive)
After watching the video, an unnaturalness is noticed in Trump's communication, leaving room for suspicion of cloning his voice.
To support this fact, hibrid.info has analyzed the video material with applications that identify deepfake or artificial intelligence-generated content.
Based on the results provided by the application "Hive Moderation"It turns out that the video material is 99,9% deepfake content, as well as platforms for verifying suspicious content, truemedia.org, emphasizes the fact that the video material is suspicious due to the fact that it contains voice cloning and facial manipulation.
Hibrid.info has found the original video of Donald Trump, released in 2017, where in an exclusive interview with NBC News, he talked about the possibility of firing FBI Director James Comey. (here)
Analyze:
It was claimed through a video that Donald Trump has declared himself in favor of changing Kosovo's name to Dardania.
After fact-checking by hibrid.info, it was found that the video material was manipulated.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses the content as "Fraud".
Reasoning:
The “Deception” rating is given to informational content that is manipulated in terms of visual (deepfake, cheapfake), audio, or textual content to deceive the audience. This form of deception is usually used to produce false and manipulated content.