Michal Šimečka
Slovak party leader who became the target of one of Europe’s first consequential election deepfakes: a fabricated audio recording purporting to capture him discussing vote-buying spread in the final days before the 2023 parliamentary election, during the 48-hour moratorium when campaigning and polling are barred and rebuttal is hardest.
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Electoral record
Each entry is dated, categorised by what it did to the conduct of an election, and cited.
- 2023RecordedCandidacy
Led his party into the parliamentary election, finishing second.
Elections in Slovakia — election observation reports — OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - 2023Subject of a findingAction
A fabricated audio recording impersonating him circulated in the final days of the campaign, during the pre-election moratorium. Fact-checkers identified it as synthetic; the moratorium limited the scope for public rebuttal.
Elections in Slovakia — election observation reports — OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
Linked cases
Sources
- Elections in Slovakia — election observation reports— OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights