Ghanaians on social media have reacted to reports of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the NPP deploying over 170 fake X accounts to spread false AI-generated messages.
According to a new research investigation reported by NewsGuard, it has been revealed that Ghana’s incumbent NPP has deployed over 170 Twitter fake accounts that use ChatGPT to create and spread false AI-generated messages to discredit the main opposition candidate the NDC.
The Information gathered suggests the fake accounts have been active since February and have been uniformly promoting NPP’s presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia with the hashtags #Bawumia2024, #NPP, and the NPP slogan #ItIsPossible.
The fake accounts have AI-generated profile photos, and have names such as “Glenn Washington,” “Netflix Series&Movies,” and “Patriot” also belittle John Mahama, the presidential candidate from the National Democratic Congress using hashtags such as #mahamaisaliar and #DrunkmaniMahama, accusing Mahama of being a drunkard, which John Mahama has since denied.
Reacting to the investigation carried out by NewsGuard, Ghanaians have taken to social media platforms on X to share their comments, one user revealed he had seen a video that edited the voice of NDC’s National Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketia’s speech saying the NDC will cancel Free SHS.
See the comments below:
I’ve seen a video that has edited Asiedu Nketiah’s speech to make it look as if he’s saying they will cancel Free SHS
— Kobina @kenkeyindex@dumsorreport IG:@afreakonomics (@kobina) November 17, 2024
You know I approached these guys to build a misinformation monitoring solution at the beginning of their tenure? I guess I now understand why they ignored me
— Paul Azunre (@pazunre) November 17, 2024
Digitisation 😂
— Mansa Musa (@THEREALKIWI1) November 18, 2024
Yes… about 2 days ago, one loud mouth here on this app posted a video of a road that was still under construction, they had just poured the oil on the road and later completed everything. This stomach directed influencer posted only a portion of it just to disgrace the govt..smh
— Owura Jnr 🌟🤘💥🇵🇷 (@OwuraJnr) November 18, 2024
Both parties are guilty
— agyakese (@agyakese) November 17, 2024
They should continue, after 7th December, all these nonsense will stop.
— DSK (@the_dsk) November 18, 2024
Club 700 geng exposed
— Rasta4NDC🇬🇭 JM 4 President (@Rasta4NDC) November 17, 2024
Is the nkokɔma nkete nkete part??
— 👽Bra Dessy 👽 (@OneDessy) November 17, 2024
YES IT IS POSSIBLE
because after 8 years of shambolic and stressed failure this is how you people want to explain things to the ordinary Ghanaian pic.twitter.com/c6DM1vnt0h— EPAPHRODITUX (@Ghnathaniel) November 17, 2024
