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As any habitual social media user, King's College London professor Alan Read did not pay much heed to the occasional deepfakes that would flash up on his feed. Sometimes he would report them, other times he would simply scroll past.

A deeply terrifying new wave of highly sophisticated, AI-generated deepfakes heavily linked to Russian intelligence is currently aggressively flooding global social media networks, completely supercharging dark disinformation campaigns.
These highly weaponized synthetic videos are aggressively targeting the deep credibility of vital Western institutions and completely confusing millions of highly vulnerable voters.
This completely unprecedented technological warfare matters deeply because as aggressive tools like OpenAI's Sora2 massively proliferate, highly fragile democracies across East Africa remain completely defenseless against massive, completely automated psychological manipulation.
The completely horrifying reality of this new aggressive digital frontier was brutally exposed when Professor Alan Read of King's College London casually stumbled upon a totally flawless, highly aggressive deepfake video of his exact own face and perfectly cloned voice. In the completely fabricated clip, the heavily manipulated professor was aggressively depicted launching a totally unhinged, heavily politicized tirade absolutely condemning French President Emmanuel Macron and violently attacking the entire deeply established European Union structure.
This deeply malicious video is entirely not an isolated anomaly; it is a highly calculated, heavily coordinated payload aggressively deployed by Kremlin-linked cyber operatives. By completely hijacking the incredibly highly respected, completely neutral avatars of deeply obscure global academics, these highly aggressive intelligence campaigns totally bypass standard, deeply embedded platform security algorithms. The deeply toxic videos are strictly designed to violently discredit the highly strained Kyiv government and entirely sabotage massive Western financial funding.
For deeply connected Kenyan digital analysts, the absolute sheer, brutal scale of this incredibly cheap, highly weaponized persuasion is deeply alarming. If massive, highly stable European networks are completely struggling to brutally contain this massive synthetic assault, the highly unregulated, deeply chaotic East African social media ecosystem is absolutely totally vulnerable.
The incredibly rapid, highly aggressive commercialization of massive, highly advanced video-generating software has entirely completely democratized massive, highly destructive psychological warfare.
This is entirely not just a mere, slight spike in aggressive deepfakes; it is an incredibly massive, totally fundamental revolution in how deep global political influence is aggressively manufactured and violently deployed.
Deeply concerned global security experts are totally aggressively sounding the ultimate alarm that deeply established current governmental regulatory schemes are entirely completely totally obsolete.
"We completely squarely face incredibly highly aggressive digital systems that can instantly generate massive, totally flawless political persuasion at an absolute, brutal global scale; this is the ultimate, incredibly terrifying frontier of modern warfare," cautioned a senior European defense analyst.
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