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🤔⁉️A five-second video allegedly showing a meeting between Valerii Zaluzhnyi and Vadym Stolar began circulating online at around noon on 20 August, initially appearing on pro-Russian Telegram channels. However, the real media boost for this planted story came the next evening, when MP Maryana Bezuhla on 18:00 21 August posted a screenshot from that clip. By publishing it, she effectively legitimized the claim in the Ukrainian information space, triggering a second wave of reposts that referenced her.
The screenshot chosen for publication was made skillfully enough to bypass initial automated AI-fake checks and avoid immediate detection by detectors.
However, a full analysis of the video file itself tells a very different story, and the original clip does not pass such scrutiny. The most telling frames appear during frame-by-frame analysis, where an artificially static, "plastic" "Zaluzhnyi" and an entirely unnatural left hand of "Stolar"—both plastic in appearance and anatomically wrong—are clearly visible as he handles papers.
Gemini asserts that this is a classic overlay case, where the real people in the footage simply had their faces "pasted on" using face-swap technology. The basis was real footage of two unrelated people in the venue, after which AI algorithms tried to replace their features, leaving characteristic digital artifacts on contours and in facial expressions.
— political scientist Ihor Chalenko.
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