{"id":91507,"date":"2025-10-22T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/91507\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:35:11","slug":"catherine-connolly-condemns-disgraceful-deep-fake-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/91507\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly condemns &#8216;disgraceful&#8217; deep-fake video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761137349_348_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b2ff5570-af5e-11f0-b932-d752a474c44a.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"PA Media Catherine Connolly is wearing a blue jacket with a black t-shirt. She has a chain around her neck. She has short grey hair. The background is blurry. \" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly has lodged a formal complaint with the Electoral Commission over a &#8220;malicious deep-fake&#8221; AI video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The video appeared online on Tuesday night and showed an AI version of Connolly appearing to announce her withdrawal from Friday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Connolly called the video a &#8220;disgraceful attempt to mislead voters and undermine our democracy&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a statement, the independent TD (member of the Irish parliament) said she was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; still a candidate to become the 10th president of Ireland. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761137349_348_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/064d67b0-af61-11f0-b932-d752a474c44a.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Facebook Catherine Connolly is pictured in a fake video. She has short grey hair. The heads of two other people are visible. There is a red warning label on the photo that reads AI generated. There is also a news box with her name and description. It is labelled as RTE news. \" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The video appeared online on Tuesday night <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It is a disgraceful attempt to mislead voters and undermine our democracy&#8221;, she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I will not be distracted. I will continue my campaign in every county, meeting people and making the case for a hopeful, inclusive presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She added: &#8220;If you see this video, do not share it &#8211; report it, the surest reply to lies is to vote.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Connolly&#8217;s campaign team said they have reported the video to the social media platforms it appeared on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They have requested it be removed immediately and clearly listed as fake. <\/p>\n<p>Who is Catherine Connolly? <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Connolly has been an independent TD for the Galway West constituency since 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She previously served as deputy speaker in the D\u00e1il (Irish parliament) in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A former member of the Irish Labour Party, she quit after not being allowed to run alongside Michael D Higgins in the 2007 general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Connolly has been backed in her Irish presidential bid by several left-leaning parties and a number of independents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA Media Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly has lodged a formal complaint with the Electoral Commission over a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-91507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}