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Nacho with O pointed out that Manelyk González was angry because, as she wrote, she believed that the production had shown the clip in which she threw food at Kevyn Bicolor without the full context. #LaGranjaGala https://t.co/TARGyetoGt #ManelykGonzález #RealityShow #LaGranjaGala (translated)

Mocatito pointed out that in Serpias' version, the other voices could not be heard and shared a clip in which, he said, she asked Eón to speed up because he was driving. He added that he was only repeating what they had been told: that those people could not get on with them. https://t.co/uQ6AFflLcK #Serpias #POV #clip (translated)

Nae® Moromete wrote that many users were discovering an older clip he published with Călin Georgescu. He said he had known Georgescu since 2010, if he remembered correctly, although many only heard about him during the 2024 elections. According to him, the 2015 clip showed Georgescu when he was less well-known, but with the same discourse, and the post included the hashtag #freeGeorgescu. #freeGeorgescu #CălinGeorgescu #alegeri2024 #clipvechi (translated)

Zerotick wrote that he hoped T1 fans would appreciate the Worlds clip, which he presented as an illustration of Riot's dependence on Faker. He added that telling the team's historic triple was preferable to a generic narrative but wondered if it overshadowed other teams, players, and hopes at the start of Worlds 2026. #LeagueOfLegends #Worlds2026 #Faker (translated)

The author said he asked Grok to find footage, photos, and clips recorded on October 7, 2023, by surveillance cameras or GoPros attached to heads, which, according to him, many Hamas members were wearing to record the events. The post stopped as he began to reference "5,000" Hamas members, without completing the sentence. #Hamas #Grok #7ottobre2023 #IT (translated)

"A big, big setup is being prepared. It has been brewing for two months. PSD will govern, we will have a PSD government, but in order not to fully take on the misfortunes that are coming, they will put Luca Niculescu in front. This is the system's plan." "Romania will have a PSD government with Luca Niculescu put forward to take on the 'misfortunes that are coming,' accuses the president of AUR, George Simion, in a video posted on Facebook on the day the designated prime minister is discussing with the parties." #GeorgeSimion #GuvernPSD #AlegeriAnticipate (translated)

BCharts stated that cruising would also be a form of resistance and said that Troye Sivan had announced a new single titled "FF." According to the profile, Sivan described the music video as the gayest of his career; BCharts questioned whether that was possible. https://t.co/CeQYyPZ4ly #TroyeSivan #NovoSingle #MúsicaGay (translated)

Brazil’s synthetic voters – when AI manufactures public opinion They look like ordinary street interviews. A reporter approaches a passer-by in a Brazilian square and asks a simple question: who will you vote for? A young voter explains why Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva deserves another term. An elderly woman says Brazil needs Flávio Bolsonaro because he represents political renewal and greater security. The locations look plausible, the microphones are visible and the answers sound much like the brief political opinions heard in television vox pops around the world. None of the people are real. Ahead of Brazil’s presidential election on 4 October, fact-checking organisation Aos Fatos identified at least 50 TikTok videos in which artificial intelligence was used to manufacture voters, reporters and apparently spontaneous political interviews. Together, the videos had accumulated around 7.4 million views by mid-August. Some promoted Lula, others Flávio Bolsonaro, while another group used synthetic characters to ridicule or stereotype supporters of one side. Aos Fatos found no apparent evidence linking the accounts producing the videos to either presidential campaign. The opinion poll that never took place The format is important. These were not conventional deepfakes in which a recognisable politician is made to say something he never said. Instead, the creators reproduced the visual language of the vox pop – the short street interview used by broadcasters and social-media creators to illustrate what ordinary people supposedly think. In pro-Lula videos, synthetic voters described themselves as beneficiaries of social programmes or credited the president with improving their lives. In videos supporting Flávio Bolsonaro, artificial interviewees associated him with political renewal, public security and fighting corruption. Other clips were openly hostile: AI-generated characters presented as poor or living in parts of Brazil’s north-east were shown in dirty clothes or run-down surroundings, declaring support for Lula because they supposedly preferred welfare payments to work. The deception is therefore subtler than fabricating a candidate’s statement. It manufactures something that political communication normally treats as evidence of public sentiment. A real vox pop may be unscientific, but the people interviewed at least exist. These videos created the appearance that identifiable social groups – young people, pensioners, welfare recipients or residents of particular regions – were spontaneously expressing political preferences when no such encounters had taken place. An electoral-law specialist interviewed by Aos Fatos described the technique as the fabrication of a “social fact that never occurred”. That captures the central innovation: AI is being used not merely to falsify political speech, but to manufacture the impression of grassroots opinion. Fifty videos, but not one proven network The available evidence does not support describing the 50 posts as a centrally controlled influence operation. Aos Fatos located them through TikTok searches and recommendations produced by the platform itself, then examined the accounts responsible for publication. Most had relatively small individual audiences, although their combined reach was substantial. The first examples identified by the investigation appeared as early as March 2026. Activity increased in June and was concentrated particularly in July and the first half of August as Brazil’s election calendar intensified. Some accounts specialised in AI-generated videos generally, including fabricated podcast-style material. Others were explicitly political or supportive of a candidate, but Aos Fatos found no apparent links between those profiles and the official Lula or Bolsonaro campaigns. That distinction is essential. The evidence demonstrates a common technique and a shared political environment, not a single command structure. Some creators may have been motivated by ideology, others by engagement or monetisation. Publicly available evidence does not establish who commissioned the individual videos or whether any coordination existed between the accounts. This decentralised model also creates a different enforcement problem from a traditional bot network. There may be no headquarters to expose and no infrastructure whose removal disables the entire operation. The format itself can be copied by anyone with access to inexpensive generative-video tools. When the algorithm mixes real and synthetic citizens Aos Fatos documented another important feature of the phenomenon: TikTok’s recommendation system placed AI-generated interviews alongside genuine street interviews. For a user scrolling quickly through the platform, the transition between an authentic citizen and an entirely fabricated one could therefore be almost invisible. In 18 per cent of the 50 videos analysed, there was no indication that the people shown had been generated using AI. After Aos Fatos provided TikTok with the videos, the company said it had removed all of them for violating its rules on edited and AI-generated media. TikTok said its policies require creators to identify synthetic content and prohibit manipulated media capable of misleading users about matters of public importance or impersonating genuine journalistic material. The issue extends beyond one platform. Factchequeado’s review of Brazil’s 2026 election campaign found that synthetic endorsements and other deepfakes had become one of the most visible forms of AI-assisted electoral misinformation, alongside fabricated candidate statements and invented scenes. Brazil already had rules for synthetic politics Brazil entered the campaign with unusually detailed electoral rules governing artificial intelligence. The Superior Electoral Court, the TSE, requires electoral propaganda using synthetic multimedia to disclose clearly that AI was used. More importantly for the fake-voter videos, its rules prohibit synthetic audio or video used to favour or harm a candidacy when it creates or alters the image or voice of a living, deceased or fictitious person. The difficulty is attribution and enforcement. When a synthetic video is published by an official campaign, responsibility can be relatively straightforward to investigate. When it comes from an apparently independent account with no demonstrated relationship to a candidate, lawyers interviewed by Aos Fatos said responsibility is more likely to fall on the individual creator, while imposing electoral sanctions on a campaign would require evidence of a connection. For the final 72 hours before the election and the 24 hours following it, the TSE has imposed additional restrictions on newly published or republished synthetic material involving candidates or public figures, reflecting the particular difficulty of correcting fabricated content immediately before voting. From deepfake politicians to synthetic electorates The Brazilian case illustrates a broader change in political manipulation. The first generation of electoral deepfakes concentrated on famous people: make a politician appear to say something damaging, or fabricate an endorsement from a celebrity. Synthetic vox pops reverse the perspective. The politician can remain completely authentic; it is the electorate around the politician that is fabricated. That changes the psychological proposition of the message. Instead of saying the candidate believes this, the video suggests people like you believe this. Age, clothing, accent, neighbourhood and social class can all be generated to construct an artificial constituency around almost any political claim. There is no evidence that the 50 Brazilian videos identified by Aos Fatos constitute a single centrally directed campaign, nor evidence that they changed voting intentions. What they demonstrate is a technique whose barrier to entry has become extremely low. AI no longer needs to forge the politician. #DISINFORMED #Episode14 #Brazil #BrazilElection2026 #Elections #ElectionDisinformation #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #SyntheticVoters #SyntheticMedia #AIAvatars #AIGeneratedVideo #VoxPop #FakeInterviews #Astroturfing #AIPropaganda #PoliticalDisinformation #InfluenceOperations #InformationWarfare #SocialMediaManipulation #TikTok #PublicOpinion #ManufacturedConsent #SyntheticPublicOpinion #DigitalInfluence #Deepfakes #ElectionIntegrity #TSE #AosFatos #FactChecking #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD (translated)

Rasmelthor believed that Gota's statements were not made with bad intentions. According to him, Gota wanted to defend the players' choice to join M8, who were then referred to as mercenaries, but his remarks had been taken out of context. He specified that the discussion was notably about 300k in unpaid fees and considered Gota's approach to be rather naïve and awkward. He thought that Gota's main mistake was not addressing the buyout issue before the players made their choice. He added that Gota was right to say that the contracts should have already been completed, but it would have been necessary to anticipate rather than rely on logic or good faith. According to Rasmelthor, Kamel had the right to enforce the buyout, even if it seemed unfair. Rasmelthor attributed part of the misunderstandings between Kamel and Gota to agents and individuals who leaked information. He requested that the players not be involved and believed that the situation could still end well for them and for the structures, without knowing if the relationship between Kamel and Gota could be repaired. He also stated that agents were harming the scene, while deeming the harassment unjustified, and called for an end to the conflict and for the parties involved to manage it among themselves. #Esport #Gota #Drama (translated)

M8 Shun wrote that he felt some people harbored strong hostility towards M8, which he attributed perhaps to jealousy or fear. He stated that the club had been criticized for three years, especially due to clips taken out of context, and that its leaders and fans were the target of insults or accusations of racism, with some supporters also depicted as 12-year-old children. He added that Gentlemates would continue to grow and become the largest esports club in the world. Despite sporting and extra-sporting difficulties, he wrote, true fans would remain present. #M8WIN #Esport #M8WIN #Gentlemates (translated)

Tam wrote that he found this man almost masochistic: according to him, he knew that questions would be asked of him and that he would respond, all while knowing that his answers would then be disseminated in the form of excerpts taken out of context. Tam added that he nonetheless agreed to the exercise each time. #masochisme #questions #réponses (translated)

The FREE ROOSTER indicated that it had dedicated many hours to the creation of a video and believed that Micheline should speak out about the situation. It presented the song as satirical, specifying that it reflected only its personal opinions and that it had been made 95% with AI. The title was "Blowing on the Embers." https://t.co/Ku18p8hoaE #Chanson #Satire #Musique (translated)

The FREE ROOSTER indicated that he would discuss, with Micheline, the events of the week in his next song, which he believes is highly anticipated. He added that he would be directing the music video and would publish it as soon as possible, before wishing everyone a good weekend. https://t.co/AxmR3YPp3L #musique #nouvellechanson #weekend (translated)