Low
Fake
The more synthetic media is perceived to be legitimate and authoritative, the content is more likely to be trusted, persuasive, and acted upon.
Synthetic media can range from non-interactive, not ongoing, or not consistent (low) to interactive, ongoing, and consistent (high).
Synthetic media can range from very recognizable and familiar (high) or hardly (or not) recognizable and familiar (low).
Synthetic media can range from evoking a significant affective response (high) to barely or not at all eliciting an affective reaction.
Synthetic media can range from broadcast to a wide human audience or technical security measures (high) to a narrow, specific human audience or tailored technical security measure (low).
This clip is considered to be a low threat because the content creator acknowledged that it is a deepfake made for political commentary purposes.
The spread of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs and affect through social aggregates from one member to another
Meme
Artwork creative using generative adversarial networks (GAN), other other neural networks or artificial intelligence.
The media is intended to serve as a catalyst for political argument, discord and divisiveness.
Synthetic media used to create the appearance that an individual(s) has participated in a press conference and behaved or spoken problematically
This deepfake content plays into audience preconceptions and perspective that President Biden is pushing the US toward a war with Russia, thus leveraing Confirmation Bias. There is also a component of emotional load as reinstating is an emotionally "hot" topic. Finally, this content has the potential to create false memories in audience members, particularly viewers of edited versions that circulated without the additional commentary at the end of the video.
The tendency to seek information that confirms or supports a predetermined position or conclusion.
An attacker leverages fear to gain target compliance.
Affective responses--emotions, moods and feelings--effect cognition and perception. Media that intentionally causes a high degree of emotional load can significantly image how target audience member perceives and thinks about the subject of the media.
False memory implantation is a recollection that seems real but is actually a fabricated or distorted recollection of an event by virtue of being fed untrue information about an event or experience. These memories may be entirely false and imaginary, or in some cases may contain elements of fact that have been distorted by interfering information or other memory distortions.
Both humans and automation may be targeted by synthetic media attacks. This criteria references whether the target of the attack was human or automation. The highlighted icon represents the intended target of this submitted media.
Human
Technical
Hybrid
Unknown
A measure of if the attack was constructed by a human or by artificial intelligence. The highlighted icon represents the method of control of this submitted media.
Human
Automation
Hybrid
Unknown
The medium is the format of the content submitted. Highlighted items represent all of the various formats contained in the submitted content.
Text
Image
Video
Audio
Technical complexity of the atttack.
How damaging the attack was intended to be.
See above commentary.
Evoke feelings of hopelessness
Create group, organization or societal division
The creator and/or disseminator of the media seeks to create political discord, argumentation and divisiveness.
Motivation is the underlying activator, purpose or sustained reasons for why the deepfake threat actor wants to create nefarious synthetic media.
No case specific insights generated.
Targeting is the threat actor’s intentional selection of a target audience, or the group or individual whom he is interested in impacting with his deepfake campaign.
No case specific insights generated.
Research & Reconnaissance occurs when the threat actor is effortfully gathering information about the target audience, the optimal channels to conduct their campaign on, the relevant narratives for the attack, and type of content that will have the desired impact on the target audience.
No case specific insights generated.
Preparation & Planning are the steps and processes that the threat actor takes to acquire the tools and content needed to create the deepfake media for their campaign and their deliberation for the execution of the campaign.
No case specific insights generated.
Production is the threat actor’s use of tools and content for the creation and development of deepfake media for their attack campaign.
No case specific insights generated.
Narrative Testing. A narrative is a story, or an account of related events or experiences. A good narrative will have story coherence, such that both the story being told and its relationship to the real world are cohesive and clear. In deepfake campaigns, threat actors consider and evaluate the possible narratives—particularly in relation to events and context—to support the campaign in an effort to maximize the believability and efficacy of the attack.
The most effective counter strategy for this video would likely be an aggressive counter-narrative campaign.
Deployment is the threat actor’s intentional transmission of deepfake content to the target audience through selected online channels.
No case specific insights generated.
Amplification is the threat actor’s intentional efforts to maximize the visibility, virality and target audience exposure to their deepfake content.
No case specific insights generated.
Post-Campaign is the period after the target audience has received and been exposed to the deepfake content.
No case specific insights generated.
Notes:
This deepfake video clip witnessed a significant of reposts on social media and several news channels ran stories on the clip. https://twitter.com/i/status/1630299734958112770 3:12 PM · Feb 27, 2023 · 8.1M Views 1,584 Reposts | 2,639 Quotes | 3,330 Likes | 794 Bookmarks https://twitter.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1630299734958112770