Fake audio, real violence. Brand new film out now.
From the team that brought you the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary The Great Hack, comes an explosive new documentary, ‘The Fake Mayor’.
Starring Mayor Sadiq Khan, directed by Karim Amer (The Vow, The Square & The Great Hack), and produced by our sister production company, Project Citizen, as well as Jia Chen and Alex Baldwin.
The Fake Mayor shows how online violence erupted into real world violence on the streets of London on Remembrance Day last year and it couldn’t be more timely as a leaked report shows US Capitol Hill Police are preparing for post-election violence risks in the run up to Trump’s inauguration, highlighting the role of social media.
Remembrance weekend 2023. Three separate audio deepfakes of London mayor Sadiq Khan surface on social media in the span of 24 hours. All of them false, stating things Khan never said. They went viral.
One of the deepfakes, a fabricated conversation where Khan is found maligning Remembrace Day celebrations, and lending support to a pro-Palestinian rally incited a far right response.
Khan was demonised and white supremacist groups mobilised on the streets, breached the war memorial and aggressively clashed with the police. Some cheaply manufactured audio deepfakes - going viral on social media - caused total mayhem on London’s streets.
Catch the full film here:
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