After accident with Zaluzhny deputy who died after triggering a hand grenade which he believed was a dummy,
#Russia channels started distributing a deepfake video of
#Ukraine Zaluzhny allegedly calling this an assassination and announcing a state coup against Zelensky. Such deepfake videos were distributed in the past already e.g. with Zelensky but never gained much traction — it seems like in case of such outrageous claims most people somehow disciplined themselves to go and double check. Sad we don't do the same with equally outrageous COVID19 claims etc.
@kravietz
As for COVID, I don't think that videos of Bill Gates talking about pandemic 5 years ago made a difference, it were vaccines themselves — do they stop the spread? Do they work at all and if not why are they mandatory? This ruined the public trust, no wonder some turned to conspiracies for answers.
I mean, sure there were those talking about microchips and 5G towers from the get go, but those are just urban madmen, I think there are relatively few of them.