[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-spains-main-opposition-posts-ai-deepfake-campaign-video":10,"sections":49},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":38,"tags":39,"sources":44,"feedback":48,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":48,"total_tokens":48},12383,"spains-main-opposition-posts-ai-deepfake-campaign-video","Spain's Main Opposition Posts AI Deepfake Campaign Video","A mainstream party, not an anonymous account, posted synthetic confessions five weeks before Spain's November 29 election.","Spain's main opposition party has put out a campaign video built with AI deepfakes, in which likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's Socialists appear to confess to wrongdoing.\n\nThe conservative People's party (PP) shared the video on October 21, five weeks before the November 29 general election. Deepfakes are media generated or altered by AI to show someone saying or doing something on screen. Here the technique is used to stage admissions of guilt by figures tied to the governing party.\n\nThe notable detail is the sender. Earlier election deepfakes, such as the fake audio that circulated before Slovakia's 2023 vote and the AI-generated robocall imitating President Joe Biden in New Hampshire in 2024, came from sources that were anonymous or hard to trace. Those cases turned on detection: who made it, and how fast could anyone prove it was fake. A party posting its own deepfake removes the attribution problem entirely. The PP put its name on the material.\n\nThat shifts the debate from forensics to norms. Platform policies and election rules have mostly been drafted with covert fakes in mind, where the harm is deception by an unknown actor. A major party with a press office and a campaign calendar is a different kind of sender, and the five-week window gives the video time to circulate before ballots are cast.\n\nThe open question is whether rules written for anonymous fakes apply cleanly when the sender is a party that is happy to be identified.","[\"deepfakes\",\"spain\",\"elections\",\"ai\"]","2026-10-26T11:05:02.000Z","2026-10-26T11:24:08.906Z","2026-10-26T11:24:09.309Z","published",null,[24,30,34],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Delete the sentence 'The source gives no word on how prominently the video is labeled as AI-made', which admits missing source material inside the article, and either drop the labeling point or word it without that admission; also tighten the unsourced generalization that political deepfakes 'have mostly surfaced through anonymous accounts', and add the video's reach, which the source gives, if it can be confirmed.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Replace the awkward 'According to the source headline, Sánchez's wife is among those depicted' with a proper attribution to The Next Web's report (or drop the claim), and cut or source the unsupported assertion that how the AI Act and election law apply is 'the part nobody has settled in public'.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"The Sánchez's-wife claim and the 'nobody has settled' line are gone, but the draft still says 'It is not clear from the available details whether the video is labeled as synthetic', which admits missing source material and props up the analysis, so cut that paragraph or source the labeling fact; also drop or source the flat assertion that 'the real people said none of it', and add the view count from the source if you can confirm it.","policy",[40,41,42,43],"deepfakes","spain","elections","ai",[45],{"name":46,"url":47},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fspain-deepfake-video-pp-sanchez-wife-election",0,{"sections":50},[51,55,60,63,68,73,78,83,88,93,98,103,108,113],{"name":52,"slug":43,"count":53,"latest_published_at":54},"AI",7083,"2026-10-25T15:25:40.000Z",{"name":56,"slug":57,"count":58,"latest_published_at":59},"Security","security",1069,"2026-10-26T12:00:52.000Z",{"name":61,"slug":38,"count":62,"latest_published_at":18},"Policy",589,{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Deals","deals",575,"2026-10-26T10:23:06.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":72},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",303,"2026-10-26T11:31:21.000Z",{"name":74,"slug":75,"count":76,"latest_published_at":77},"Hardware","hardware",297,"2026-10-26T11:24:42.000Z",{"name":79,"slug":80,"count":81,"latest_published_at":82},"Science","science",218,"2026-10-23T22:48:25.000Z",{"name":84,"slug":85,"count":86,"latest_published_at":87},"Startups","startups",148,"2026-10-23T16:26:29.000Z",{"name":89,"slug":90,"count":91,"latest_published_at":92},"Software","software",145,"2026-10-26T09:30:00.000Z",{"name":94,"slug":95,"count":96,"latest_published_at":97},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":99,"slug":100,"count":101,"latest_published_at":102},"General","general",104,"2026-10-26T09:26:49.000Z",{"name":104,"slug":105,"count":106,"latest_published_at":107},"Gaming","gaming",88,"2026-10-22T22:25:33.000Z",{"name":109,"slug":110,"count":111,"latest_published_at":112},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":114,"slug":115,"count":116,"latest_published_at":117},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]