A video that claimed to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling on his country's forces to lay down their arms has been removed from Facebook.
Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy at Facebook's parent company, Meta, said in a statement that the video had violated the company's policy against misleading manipulated media.
Around the same time that the television channel Ukraine 24 was hacked, a crude video was released. The news ticker on the station was changed to urge Ukrainians to give up their weapons.
A still image from the deepfake, as well as text from the purported statement, was also posted on the channel's website.
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Zelenskyy called the video a "childish provocation" in a post on his Telegram account.
He said that they were not going to lay down any weapons until they won.
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