Incident 841: Fake Video Allegedly Targets Moldovan Economic Development Minister Dumitru Alaiba in Election Disinformation Campaign

Description: A fake video and some photos circulated online depicting Moldova’s Economic Development Minister, Dumitru Alaiba, in compromising situations as part of an alleged disinformation campaign by pro-Kremlin supporters, one that has been reported to rely on AI to generate fake content. Alaiba denounced the media as poorly made fakes that were released to mislead the public and influence Moldova’s elections by undermining his reputation and the government's pro-European Union stance.

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Incident ID
841
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2024-10-01
Editors
Dummy Dummy
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

4.1. Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale

Risk Domain

  1. Malicious Actors & Misuse

Entity

Human

Timing

Post-deployment

Intent

Intentional

"Poorly made fakes": Alaiba, about intimate video images from a sauna (PHOTO)
agora.md · 2024
AI Translated

"Poorly made fakes". This is the statement of the Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization, Dumitru Alaiba, about a video clip that appeared online, entitled "the minister is resting nicely". In the video, a male person appears, …

Poor quality fakes, Minister Alaiba about images showing him in sauna
ipn.md · 2024

“Poor quality fakes”. This is how Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization Dumitru Alaiba commented on the video and photo images shared on a Telegram channel, in which a person with physical features similar to his appears in a …

Moscow Roils a Country on the Edge of Europe and Russia
nytimes.com · 2024

Moldova's police chief, appointed by a government committed to joining the European Union and leaving Russia's orbit, was alarmed to find his country's capital suddenly plastered with posters bearing a blunt message: "No EU."

The posters --…

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