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Informing in times of war

Audio 7:30 p.m.

In Irpine, a humanitarian corridor secured by Ukrainian soldiers to allow civilians to evacuate the towns of Boucha and Irpine, while fighting continues a few kilometers away.

© RFI/Bertrand Haeckler

By: Adrien Delgrange

1 min

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As a counterpoint to misinformation  

Guest:

Pierre Olivier

, journalist-reporter for RFI, gone to a war zone to cover the deadly conflict in Ukraine.

Returning from this mission, after having spent 15 days criss-crossing Ukraine in the company of Bertrand Haeckler, Pierre Olivier tells us of his desire to inform as closely as possible to reality, the way, not without risk and not without difficulty, of report this war.  

Deepfakes on the

disinformation

front in the war in Ukraine, with Sophie Malibeaux and Grégory Genevrier. 

Disinformation has just taken a new step this week in Ukraine, with the appearance of

deepfakes

on social networks.

Rigged videos, particularly sophisticated, thanks to artificial intelligence.

This Wednesday, it was the Ukrainian president who was the victim of this process.

With

Marin Lefèvre

, journalist at

AFP Factual

, the verification site of Agence France Presse.

We return to a screenshot that has been doctored, an image taken from an interview on the France 24 television channel where one of the presenters seems to be talking to Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba.  

Ali Bongo reportedly went so far as to declare that he was ready to "attack Russia" - if Russia did not withdraw from the country.  

A rumor that has been shared more than 1,000 times in less than two weeks. 

All of our daily, live coverage of the war in Ukraine.

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