In a Wednesday op-ed for the Washington Post, two members of the Atlantic Council described being emailed by someone impersonating Leonid Volkov, the chief of staff to imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Melinda Haring, the deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. and Damon Wilson, the Washington foriegn policy think tank’s executive vice president, described nearly being convinced by a suspected Russian prankster impersonating Volkov.
“The email was well-written and sympathetic,” the pair wrote in the op-ed published Wednesday. “It praised our work and requested an on-camera meeting with the top three executives at our organization, one of Washington’s leading think tanks. But the message was fake. The people who sent it were trying to lure us into a potentially sensitive or even embarrassing online conversation.”
Deepfakes: Diputados holandeses son engañados por un falso colaborador de Alexéi Navalny
rfi.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rfi.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hello, this is Leonid Volkov* Using deepfake video and posing as Navalny s right-hand man, Russian pranksters fool Latvian politicians and journalists into invitation and TV interview — Meduza
meduza.io - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from meduza.io Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.