{"id":130322,"date":"2024-05-13T07:45:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T04:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/fake-news-on-the-rise-leading-up-to-eu-election\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T07:45:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T04:45:54","slug":"fake-news-on-the-rise-leading-up-to-eu-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/fake-news-on-the-rise-leading-up-to-eu-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake news on the rise leading up to EU election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130322\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nDoes Marine Le Pen have nieces we&#8217;ve never heard about? In April, users claiming to be nieces of Marine Le Pen posted videos on TikTok promoting her far-right National Rally (RN) party. But Amandine and Lena Marechal are not real. These purported nieces of the far-right politician were deepfakes, as was quickly reported in the French media and on the social media platform TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>The makers of the videos used artificial intelligence (AI) to superimpose pictures of the faces of Marine Le Pen and her actual niece, Marion Marechal, onto images of other people. This created the illusion of younger family members, who could then proclaim to be &#8220;proud to be French&#8221; and admiring of their &#8220;aunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A close-up image of Marine Le Pen below an AI-generated image of a young woman with a striking resemblance. The image is marked &#8220;fake.&#8221;A close-up image of Marine Le Pen below an AI-generated image of a young woman with a striking resemblance. The image is marked &#8220;fake.&#8221; According to French media reports, the account @amandieeette had over 32,000 followers. It has since been deleted \u2014 just like the account @lena.marechal.lepel. It seems that the two accounts were created to make the far right appear more appealing to a younger audience ahead of the upcoming European elections.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2023, a social media post suggesting that chocolate might soon be made with crickets caused quite a stir online. The image depicted what looked like a photo of a package of chocolate made by the popular German brand Ritter Sport. The packaging featured pictures of a cricket and two pieces of chocolate, and the German words &#8220;Ganze Grille,&#8221; which translate into English as &#8220;whole cricket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the stir, Ritter Sport announced that it was a joke and pointed to the hashtag #fakesorte that had been included in the post. A harmless gag by the marketing team, it reiterated. But a gag inspired by reality. In late January 2023, the European Commission passed regulation 2023\/5 that really permits crickets to be used in foodstuffs.<\/p>\n<p>In April of this year, just two months before the European elections, the matter popped up again on Hungarian social media, repurposed to form the basis of a disinformation campaign about EU regulations permitting insect-based food ingredients. This is just one example of how images taken out of context and misleading claims can be used to whip up distrust towards the European Union (EU) and its institutions.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has a family photo album that contains a picture of her grandmother shaking hands with Adolf Hitler. That supposed picture, captioned &#8220;My Sweet Granny Didn&#8217;t Wash Her Hand for a Month after This Precious Occasion,\u201d has been liked many times.<\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of a post on X, formerly Twitter, showing a historic photograph of a woman shaking hands with Adolf Hitler, claiming the woman is Ursula von der Leyen&#8217;s grandmother. The image is marked &#8220;false&#8221;A screenshot of a post on X, formerly Twitter, showing a historic photograph of a woman shaking hands with Adolf Hitler, claiming the woman is Ursula von der Leyen&#8217;s grandmother. The image is marked &#8220;false&#8221; &#8211; the woman shaking hands with Adolf Hitler is not related to Ursula von der LeyenImage: X\/Norman Finkelstein<\/p>\n<p>It is a classic example of politically motivated fake news. It went viral after political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein picked it up and posted it on X, formerly Twitter, where he has half a million followers. The image suggests that von der Leyen&#8217;s grandparents were Nazi sympathizers. While the picture itself is real and historically correct, the woman in the photo is not Ursula von der Leyen&#8217;s grandmother at all. Fact checkers have discovered that her name was Hildegard Zantop and she was a farmer in East Prussia. There is nothing to connect her to the European Commission president. The picture, which was taken at a Nazi rally in 1937, is archived in an East Prussia picture library. The fact that the name is spelt as &#8220;von der Leyne&#8221; in the post gives a first hint that it is a fake post. Finkelstein has described Ursula von der Leyen as &#8220;the Nazi princess&#8221; and &#8220;Frau Genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/fake-news-on-the-rise-leading-up-to-eu-election\/a-69046888\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/fake-news-on-the-rise-leading-up-to-eu-election\/a-69046888\">DW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/fake-news-on-the-rise-leading-up-to-eu-election\/\">Fake news on the rise leading up to EU election<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,14480,398],"class_list":["post-130322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu-election","tag-fake-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}