00:03Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
00:04Welcome to Euronews' fact-checking show The Cube.
00:06A series of AI-generated videos
00:09showing thousands of people protesting
00:11in different European cities
00:12has been shared on TikTok.
00:14These videos published in the past four months
00:17claim that citizens have gathered
00:19to protest against immigration,
00:21the state of the country,
00:22the current government or
00:24for nationalist values.
00:26The Cube team has identified this kind of
00:28of content targeting users in
00:30Portugal, France, Germany,
00:33Ireland, Italy and the UK.
00:35However, the protests are
00:36not real, despite some of the
00:39videos looking fairly convincing.
00:41In fact, TikTok has labeled
00:42the content as AI-generated,
00:45giving us our first clue
00:46that the protests did not take place,
00:49but many users while scrolling
00:50appear to believe they did.
00:52Most of these videos also asked the audience
00:55to engage with the content by
00:56by writing their opinions about the protests
00:58or sharing the name of the city
01:00from which they are watching.
01:02Many of them poses legitimate news outlets.
01:05For example, in this Portuguese video,
01:07the journalist allegedly works for the state-owned media RTP,
01:12while the graphics resemble those of sick noticias.
01:15Her location is also off.
01:17In real life, the Tagos River flows where the building
01:20is standing in is depicted.
01:22The videos use three common misinformation techniques,
01:26emotional language, AI-generated content
01:29and polarization.
01:30TikTok says it bans AI-generated content
01:33that is misleading about matters of public importance
01:36or violates its misinformation guidelines.
01:39Under the European Digital Services Act,
01:42it must also take effective measures against content
01:45that could negatively affect civic discourse
01:48and electoral processes.
01:50Some videos, however, seem to slip through.
