Slovak election targeted by pro-Kremlin deepfake hoax

The journalist Monika Tódová has never spoken to the politician Michal Šimečka about the manipulation of the elections. But in a short video spreading just a few days before the recent Slovak election, they were heard talking about it. The 2023 Slovak parliamentary elections may allegedly be the first campaign where deepfakes, i.e. computer-generated audio and video, were a part of the pre-election battle.