{"id":630038,"date":"2026-06-09T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630038\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:38:10","slug":"farage-says-reform-has-contacted-x-over-fake-ai-video-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/630038\/","title":{"rendered":"Farage says Reform has contacted X over fake AI video ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after the Bank of England also urged X users to report the ads, where seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately, fake adverts impersonating the Bank of England and other central banks are on the rise,&#8221; said Governor Andrew Bailey in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These scams are designed to criminally exploit the public, especially the vulnerable, when they are online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He urged the public to stay vigilant and &#8220;report these scams&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That way authorities can better root out digital deception like this and permanently remove the fraudsters responsible for what is a truly online scourge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ads have repeatedly appeared to users on X in recent days, and show the two men arguing or fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the promoted posts falsely depict Farage kicking, grabbing and lunging after Bailey on BBC Question Time, with some imagery also displaying bruising on their faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes after the Bank of England also urged X users to report the ads, where seen. &#8220;Unfortunately,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-630038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}