On August 28, a video of a young Kylian Mbappé being scolded by a man said to be his father started circulating on social media. Initially published by a satirical account specialising in comedic "deepfakes" – artificially-generated images that replace one face with another – the video was reposted multiple times with some people taking it seriously. The creator of the video told us more.
A "deepfake" video of Kylian Mbappé went viral on various social media platforms. Although it began as satire, the video was shared and altered multiple times, to the point that it lost its original context.
