{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0776","record_version":1,"title":"Spain opposition party deepfake campaign video sparks outrage","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":50.4,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":15.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":0.0,"completeness":2.24,"unhedged_language":4.55},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"1 report: the420.in · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":2,"reports_independent":1,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":true,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"1 report: the420.in · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"05d653961c9871f8357fdf5eb510ec8599b9e2aaa0cc2b1562d0c3238c70f646"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"unknown","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":null,"safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-10-23","incident_class":"harmful_output","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"The conservative People’s Party (PP), Spain’s main opposition party, published a campaign video on its official social-media accounts ahead of the general election. The video used artificial intelligence to manipulate the likenesses of people linked to the Socialist party, making them appear to admit to wrongdoing. The people shown did not make the statements attributed to them. A notice that the video was AI-generated was included, but critics said it appeared in very small and difficult-to-see text. One former Socialist member filed a legal complaint alleging defamation and digital identity theft. A majority of nine legal experts consulted by El País judged the video not illegal, given the AI label and satirical tone. By October 23 the video had attracted nearly two million views, and the controversy had moved into the courts.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","harm_class":[],"affected_description":"Various people linked to the Socialist party whose likenesses were used","protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.thenews.pk/print/1444775-opposition-deepfake-video-sparks-outrage-in-spain-ahead-of-election","publisher":"The News Pakistan","date":"2026-10-23","type":"press","title":"Opposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of election - The News Pakistan","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"},{"url":"https://the420.in/spain-election-deepfake-pp-ai-political-ad-legal-complaint/","publisher":"The 420.in","date":"2026-10-24","type":"press","title":"Spain Election Deepfake Sparks Legal Fight Over AI Political Advertising - The 420.in","archived_url":null,"independence":"independent"}],"per_field_confidence":{"context.country":"C","impact.affected_description":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"context.country":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"MADRID: A political ad from Spain’s main opposition party that used a deepfake video of the prime minister’s wife has sparked outrage and set off a wider debate on AI, as the deeply polarised country gears up for general elections next month."}],"impact.affected_description":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Launched this week across the social media channels of the conservative People’s party (PP), the video used artificial intelligence to manipulate the likenesses of various people linked to Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party and appeared to show them admitting to acts such as soliciting prostitutes and taking kickbacks."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":1,"quote":"Spain’s main opposition party has triggered a political and legal controversy after publishing an artificial intelligence-generated campaign video that makes people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party appear to admit to wrongdoing."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Launched this week across the social media channels of the conservative People’s party (PP), the video used artificial intelligence to manipulate the likenesses of various people linked to Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party and appeared to show them admitting to acts such as soliciting prostitutes and taking kickbacks."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Launched this week across the social media channels of the conservative People’s party (PP), the video used artificial intelligence to manipulate the likenesses of various people linked to Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist party and appeared to show them admitting to acts such as soliciting prostitutes and taking kickbacks."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"The people shown in the video did not actually make the statements attributed to them."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"The PP included a notice saying the material was created using artificial intelligence."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"However, critics said the disclosure appeared in very small and difficult-to-see text."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"Her complaint reportedly accuses the PP of defamation and digital identity theft."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"A majority of the nine legal experts consulted by the newspaper El País concurred that what the PP had done was not illegal, given that the video was labelled as AI-generated and that the overall tone was one of political satire."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"By October 23, the video had attracted nearly two million views."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources describe a political campaign video made with AI, not an autonomous agent, so no agent, model, developer, harness or autonomy fields are given and event.agent_involved and failure fields are omitted. The launch date is only given as this week, so no exact occurrence date is recorded. No detection method, root cause, trigger, adversarial actor or remediation is stated. The severity tier moderate is my judgement: likenesses of others were used with a bounded scope, but no count of affected parties is stated, so major is not met. The responsible party is recorded as deployer as my inference from the PP publishing the video. The I6 outcome failed is my judgement from critics' statement about the disclosure. The sources give no outcome of the legal complaint or any takedown. 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