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Africa: Deepfake Alert – Ai-Generated Video Falsely Portrays Well-Known Health Expert Criticising Covid-19 Vaccines

eriinfo.com2 months ago06 mins

IN SHORT: A video circulating on Facebook appears to show South African epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim stoking fear about Covid vaccines in a TV news interview. But the video is a deepfake, and the falsely attributed claim has been widely debunked. In June 2025, a video started circulating on Facebook that appears to be a…

The Growing Deepfake Threat for South African Businesses

eriinfo.com3 months ago09 mins

Artificial intelligence has now made it possible to wake up to a video of your CEO seemingly admitting to fraud, or receiving an urgent audio message from your CFO authorising a large, unexpected transaction, without any of it being real. The Deepfake threat isn’t limited to criminal use cases targeting individuals or governments – they…