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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Sabbagh

Kremlin critic Bill Browder says he was targeted by deepfake hoax video call

Bill Browder
Browder said he was asked if wealthy Russians should be ‘let off the sanctions list in exchange for giving money to Ukraine’. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

The Kremlin critic Bill Browder has said he was targeted by a deepfake hoax when he participated in a bizarre video call this week with somebody impersonating the former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko.

The anti-corruption campaigner was invited to discuss “anti-Russian sanctions,” but ended up being asked if he favoured lifting sanctions on Kremlin oligarchs, and even to perform a salute to a rap song performed by the current president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

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