Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
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Re: Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
#2Just so the relevance here is clear. He claims it is a deep fake.
Re: Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
#3I miss those days here in the US were somekind of sexual impropriety would end someone's political career.
Now it seems, at least for one US Political Party, sexual impropriety is a requirement to be considered for higher office.
Re: Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
#4We gonna need to see that tape
Re: Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
#5I miss those days here in the US were somekind of sexual impropriety would end someone's political career. Now it seems, at least for one US Political Party, sexual impropriety is a requirement to be considered for higher office.
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Re: Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
#6> The polling organisation Metropoll predicted late last month that İnce voters would predominantly give their votes to Erdoğan’s AKP, the CHP, with some also going to the far-right Nationalist Movement party and the nationalist IYI (Good party) in the parliamentary race.
> The high-profile deployment of deepfake videos has already hit Turkey’s 45-day election cycle, after Erdoğan played an alleged deepfake that claimed to show banned Kurdish militants declaring their support for Kılıçdaroğlu at a pre-election rally last weekend
This could be the first election results secured through using deep fakes.
Re: Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
#7I miss those days here in the US were somekind of sexual impropriety would end someone's political career. Now it seems, at least for one US Political Party, sexual impropriety is a requirement to be considered for higher office.
If true, the guy just had sex, and someone filmed it, how is that impropriety? Make love not war
Re: Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
#8This improves the chance of Erdogan's main opponent winning the election because opposition votes won't be split across multiple candidates.
So despite the weird sex tape business, this is a positive event if you think Turkey should move forward from the authoritarianism and incompetent economic management of the Erdogan era.
Re: Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
#9This is not Kemal Kilicdaroglu who is the main challenger to Erdoğan, and in fact could help his chances.
1. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-la...
Re: Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake
#10Just so the relevance here is clear. He claims it is a deep fake.
Then why quit the race if he thinks it's fake?