In another example of AI being used to spread misinformation and propaganda during big world events, a CBC Canada reporter has had her voice cloned and false information overlaid on inserted video cutaways in the second half of her report.

The fake was shared on an X account called @provemewrong411. It falsely says:

“Absolutely everyone has had enough of the Ukranazis… According to reports attributed to the Canadian TV channel, Ukrainian athletes at the Olympics were deliberately accommodated separately from others…”

The post has had 62k views. We have not linked to it so as not to send traffic to the fake post.

The fact-check team at Canada’s national broadcaster published a debunk to explain that, 16 seconds into the video, the original clip was replaced by an AI-generated one, as confirmed by comparing the fake with the original one posted on the CBC News official TikTok account on February 4.

The fake post cloned the voice of CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault and overlaid it on file footage from an Olympic athlete’s village.

Other examples of anti-Ukraine Winter Olympics propaganda on social media sites include AI generated flags (Russian flags are banned at this Olympics, Russian athletes compete as individuals in keeping with Olympic conflict protocols) and a fake ‘secret message’ on a skier’s glove.