A deepfake of Nicușor Dan dancing chaotically in a club went viral on the first day of the campaign following Sunday’s presidential first round, in which George Simion, the leader of the extremist party AUR, advanced to the second round in first place (40.97%), along with Dan (21%).
The fake clip is accompanied by a soundtrack that „attests” to the character’s problems: „Hey, boy, what happened to you? Look, the cars are running you over. You alright, boy? Listen to me, what did you take, șpeis? (drugs, ed. note) Huh?”.
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The post garnered over 170,000 views and 5,000 shares in 5 hours on TikTok, where it was posted by a page that supports Călin Georgescu, the pro-Russian candidate in the cancelled presidential elections of November 24, 2024, promotes Anca Alexandrescu, the Realitatea Plus moderator and Georgescu’s megaphone, and now supports George Simion.
The clip was subsequently picked up by a Facebook user, Marian Doiu, nicknamed „Tarzan,” an AUR supporter with over 22,000 followers, where it exceeded 520,000 views and 8,500 shares in 5 hours.
In the over 1,500 comments gathered on social media within that timeframe, both on TikTok and Facebook, anonymous pages are spreading the information that the images show Nicușor Dan, a presidential candidate. Some users, however, notice that the video is a deepfake created with artificial intelligence.
In reality, the original clip featured a Russian man dancing in a club:
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