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44B · Incident
Purportedly AI-Generated Facebook Pages Allegedly Targeted Australian Rules Football Club Geelong Cats With Fabricated Harmful Claims
- Date
- July 8, 2026
- Category
- Deepfake
- Source
- AI Incident Database
- Deployer
- Synthetic media creators, Information manipulation actors in Australia, Information manipulation actors
- Harmed parties
- Social media users, Residents of Geelong, Victoria, General public of Australia, General public, Geelong Football Club, Geelong Cats players, Geelong Cats fans, Geelong Cats, Facebook users, Epistemic integrity
- Developer
- Synthetic media generation technology developers, Synthetic image generation technology developers, Deepfake technology developers
Summary
Purportedly AI-generated Facebook pages reportedly published false stories about the Geelong Football Club, including fabricated criminal allegations, illnesses, deaths, and a nonexistent bushfire evacuation warning. The club reported the pages to Meta, which later removed at least one page after complaints, while other misleading content reportedly remained online.
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