If you are an attractive female politician, or are a female involved with a politician, that wants to help your country seperate from one or all of several Venezuela-sponsored supranational projects – then prepare to have deep fakes made about you and be disseminated online.
Someone somewhere is getting paid to look through pornographic videos to find look-alikes of female politicians, to look through old videos of female politicians or the WAGs of politicians so that they can add text and music to give the impression that they were involved in the sex-industry or have cuckolded their husband.
Below are two examples of Venezuela’s Guerilla Mediatica online activists attempting to silence women or their husbands by deep-fakes.
Fabiana Rosales – First Lady of Venezuela
The wife of the President of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, Fabiana Rosales’ is so attractive she could be a model. Her Instagram has over 800K followers, which is nearly 20 times that of Cilia Flores – wife of Nicholas Maduro. While this may not matter, her looks and appeals to genuine Christian values makes her a good spokesperson for those who wish to see the Bolivarian Socialist Project end.
Last month, in an attempt to delegitimize her messaging and that of her husband, an anonymously authored video was posted to Lechinigos which claimed to be of Fabiana Rosales engaged in sexual acts with someone that wasn’t her husband.
The fact that it’s only a 30-second clip along with several other markers in the video clearly indicate that it isn’t actually her – and yet through number Chavista groups on Facebook this was promoted as truth.
A few days ago another video of Fabiana Rosales was posted. This time the video itself was not explicit, but contained the logo of an adult website and music which gave the impression that sexual activity was featured in the video.
This time, the video was actually of Fabiana Rosales – but the markers and music was false.
How do I know, becase here is the real video…
I’m not going to link to any of the adult sites hosting these deep fakes, but if you want to review the veracity of the screenshots at the top then follow this link to Contacto Con Maduro post and do some searching through the Facebook groups listed.
Jeanine Áñez – President of Bolivia
Another attractive woman who defers to Christian values to inform their political worldview, and who is a politician herself, Jeanine Áñez became president of Bolivia after Evo Morales renounced the office and fled to Mexico.
As soon as this happened propagandists connected to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela start spreading disinformation about her. They did this by falsely attributing quotes to her, as in the below, and by repeating the typical, tired Bolivarian propaganda tactic of depicting those that disagree with their politics as Nazis.
And, like with Fabiana, links to clips of videos were shared that claimed to be of the new president.
According to the news organization 24CN, they aren’t. These photos are connected to a Mexican woman.
Coordinated Inauthentic Boobhavior
The above images of semi-nude women are substantially different from the deep-fake cases of Jeanine Áñez and Fabiana Rosales, yet it does provide insight into the minds of those that support the PSUV’s digital media strategy.
Coordinated Inauthentic Boobhavior is a term that I used to descibe the sharing of sexually provocative content in order to boost engagement on Facebook.
As time spent fixated on an image is one of the factors that adds into the algorithm for placement on Facebook’s Feed, posting photos that catches the interest of the male gaze raises the likelihood of other posts appearing in the Feed.