00:00False claims and AI videos dominate Milano Cortina
00:07As the Winter Olympics continue in Milan, fake videos, AI slop and disinformation have swamped the Games.
00:15One video claiming to show US Vice President J.D. Vance being booed at the Olympics opening ceremony
00:21has spread rapidly on X and Telegram and sparked memes generating millions of views.
00:27During the actual ceremony, Vance and his wife Usher were standing in the crowd
00:32pictured wearing different clothing and smiling as the procession passed by.
00:37As seen from these photos, Vance wore a suit to the opening ceremony.
00:41He later wore a similar windbreaker to the one seen in the video
00:45but this was during a preliminary round of women's ice hockey.
00:48One of the presenters did comment on booing in the crowd
00:51which can be heard in the actual footage from the event.
00:54Journalists in the crowd also described hearing some boos as Vance was pictured on screen.
01:00However, the viral video which shows Vance frowning is AI generated.
01:05For example, you can see that Vance has unnatural eye movement.
01:08Elsewhere, Russian accounts on Telegram spread videos slandering Ukrainian refugees
01:13such as this video claiming to show Ukrainian refugees protesting outside Italian embassies
01:19demanding the Olympics be cancelled.
01:21It features the official Eurosport logo but there's no evidence that these protests took place
01:26and Eurosport did not publish this video.
01:29A widespread theory also took hold of X claiming that Sweden's Princess Frida called Trump a creep
01:36and invited Canada to join the EU.
01:38This picture is actually of Swedish cross-country skier Frida Karlsson
01:43who made no such comments as she took hold on the 7th of February
01:47at the 20km women's skiathlon.
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