Fabricated Image Targets Muslim Migrants with Anti-Immigration Message
Translated from Lithuanian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- A social media image falsely claimed to show a hijab-wearing girl speaking at a congress of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union about the Russian threat.
- The speaker did not exist, and artificial intelligence generated the photograph, which users circulated to promote an anti-immigration message targeting Muslim migrants.
A fabricated image has been used to push an anti-immigration message aimed at Muslim migrants, falsely placing an imaginary speaker on the stage of a German Christian Democratic Union congress.
The image shows a girl wearing a hijab and allegedly warning about the threat from Russia. It spread on social media as if it documented an appearance at the CDU event.
But no such speaker attended the congress. The girl does not exist, and artificial intelligence generated the picture. Social media users circulated the fake scene to convey an anti-immigration message.
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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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