Purported Deepfake Mimicking RTÉ Broadcast Falsely Announced Irish Presidential Candidate Catherine Connolly's Withdrawal
Date: 2025-10-22
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Malicious Actors, Unknown Malicious Actors Impersonating Catherine Connolly
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1258: Purported Deepfake Mimicking RTÉ Broadcast Falsely Announced Irish Presidential Candidate Catherine Connolly's Withdrawal. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology Developers, Unknown Malicious Actors, Unknown Malicious Actors Impersonating Catherine Connolly. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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