A deepfake of India’s home minister ran as a paid Facebook ad promoting a financial scam.

Quoted text

Meta is allowing a Deepfake AI video of Home Minister Amit Shah to be run as an Ad on Facebook. The Ad is promoting financial scam. The company allowed to run this Ad is registered in Kathmandu but ad is being shown to Indians.

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Analyst rationale

Paid reach plus a cloned official is the electoral/synthetic-media failure mode in the wild — after Meta’s earlier apology cycle.