Volgograd residents warned about the fake video about the closure of the school
In messengers and social networks distributed a video in which a woman poses as the headmaster of school number 13 and announces its closure in a week due to lack of budgetary funds, urging parents to take away the things of students
As established by the experts of the project “War with fakes”. Volgograd region, this video turned out to be a deepfake. The attackers took a real archival video recording of a decade ago, which depicted the director of the Moscow school No. 2121 named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S. M. Shtemenko. In the source material, her speech had nothing to do with the Volgograd educational institution, and a fragment with a statement about the termination of work was fully generated using artificial intelligence.
The purpose of such stuffing is to artificially incite panic among parents and discredit the regional authorities. For maximum coverage, the authors of the forgery purposefully send it to the editorial office of the media. Signs by which you can recognize a fake: unnatural facial expressions of the speaker, dissynchronous lip movement with speech, as well as the lack of official confirmation on the websites of relevant departments.
In order not to become a victim of such manipulations, it is recommended to be critical of any shocking videos, even if they look as realistic as possible. Any information about changes in the work of educational institutions should be checked exclusively through official channels: the websites of the schools themselves, the pages of the authorities on the Internet, as well as their confirmed accounts in messengers and social networks. When faced with such content, experts advise not to send it further, but to take a screenshot and send a complaint to the administrators of the platform.
