Deepfake TV anchors spin pro-China 'Spamouflage' campaign

Deepfake TV anchors talking positively about China while sowing disquiet in the US, UK, Taiwan, Australia, Japan and other countries have been discovered and taken down. 

The TV anchors were supposedly working for 'Wolf News' and had been created using technology created and owned by London-based AI video creation platform Synthesia. 

The anchors are thought to be the first known instance of 'deepfake'-generated videos being used as part of a state-aligned influence campaign. 

The discovery was first made (pdf) by Graphika, which had been tracking a Chinese covert influence operation named 'Spamouflage'. 

Synthesia later suspended the accounts of the people who had created the fake anchors on the basis that they had violated its terms of service.