Purported Deepfake Audio Allegedly Impersonates U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Starlink Disinformation Campaign
Date: 2025-03-04
Affected: Deepfake Technology Developers, Information Manipulation Actors, Misinformation Spreaders, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology
Attack vector: deepfake
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #974: Purported Deepfake Audio Allegedly Impersonates U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Starlink Disinformation Campaign. Alleged deployer/developer: Deepfake Technology Developers, Information Manipulation Actors, Misinformation Spreaders, Synthetic Audio Generation Technology. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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