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AI deepfakes and astroturfing: Inside the smear campaign against Pedro Pascal

Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby - (AFP via Getty Images)

Pedro Pascal should to be having a brilliant year. He’s been nominated for an Emmy for his work on the second season of The Last of Us. He played a romantic lead in Celine Song’s The Materialists, and is currently promoting Marvel movie The Fantastic Four: First Steps. He’s on the cover of Vanity Fair. The man is booked and busy, and widely beloved.

But in recent weeks, a bizarre smear campaign has been launched against Pascal on Elon Musk’s social media platform X. If you believe this vocal corner of the internet, he’s a “creep” who lurks on the red carpet waiting to “grope” his female co-stars.

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