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Fact-checkers say AI-manipulated videos of a former LDK MP and party youth members circulated before Kosovo's June 2026 election; he says they are manipulated

Kallxo's fact-checking unit Krypometer reported on 15 May 2026, ahead of Kosovo's 7 June early election, that a Facebook profile had published two videos involving Paris Guri, a former member of parliament for the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). The first showed members of the LDK Youth Forum, with Guri among them, holding bottles of milk. Krypometer says the HIVE detector gave a 97 per cent probability that it was edited with AI, and a Google Lens search found the original photo, published by Guri, in which the group raise two fingers, the LDK's symbol, instead. The second video purported to show Guri praising Albin Kurti and was shared with a Serbian-language caption calling him a beauty; Krypometer says HIVE results show the video and its speech were manipulated with AI. Guri told Krypometer the videos are manipulated. Who made them, which tool was used and how widely they spread are not reported.

AI system
Unidentified video tool
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
15 May 2026
Event location
Kosovo
What the AI did
Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm
Reputational Harm
Whose AI use
Someone else’s AI use
Setting
Elections · Public life
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 1 source
5 claims: 5 reported. 4 open questions
People reported harmed
1 person

AI system as recorded: Unnamed AI tool used to alter a party photo into a video and to fabricate a speaking video of a former Kosovo MP, assessed by Krypometer with HIVE as AI-manipulated

What Happened

The posts. Krypometer reports that a Facebook profile published a video of several young members of the LDK Youth Forum holding bottles of milk, with former LDK MP Paris Guri among them, with the line "we know nothing, we only drink milk" presented as spoken in it. The same profile published a second video in which Guri purportedly says a line praising Albin Kurti; it was shared with a Serbian-language caption calling him a beauty.

The AI assessment. Krypometer says the first video showed elements of AI generation and that HIVE gave a 97 per cent probability that it was edited with AI. Using Google Lens it found the original photo, published by Guri, in which he and the others raise two fingers, the LDK's symbol, and hold no milk bottles. For the second video, Krypometer says HIVE results show that the video and the speech in it were manipulated with AI. A detector score is a probability, not proof of the tool used.

The depicted politician's response. Krypometer contacted Guri, who said the videos are manipulated.

Context and limits. The article places the posts in the period before the 7 June 2026 early election but does not give the dates on which they were posted. The videos and the profile were not inspected. The article does not say who made the videos, which tool was used or how widely they were shared, and reports no response from the youth members shown. Quotations are translations by the research agent (an AI).

Reported harm

A former Kosovo MP was shown in two videos that fact-checkers assessed with a detector and a reverse image search as AI-manipulated, posted by a Facebook profile before an election; he told the fact-checkers the videos are manipulated (reported).

Outcome

Unknown

Krypometer published its fact check on 15 May 2026 with its HIVE results, the original photo and Guri's statement. No takedown, complaint or other action is reported in the article.

What remains unknown

  • The dates on which the two videos were posted.
  • Who runs the profile and made the videos, and which AI tool was used.
  • How widely the videos were shared and whether they were removed.
  • Whether the youth members shown responded.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. Krypometer reports that HIVE gave a 97 per cent probability that the first video was edited with AI and that a reverse image search found the original photo, in which the group raise two fingers instead of holding milk bottles; it reports that HIVE results show the second video and its speech were manipulated with AI. The fabricated likeness is what the profile published about the former MP, who said the videos are manipulated. The tool and the maker are not identified, and a detector score is a probability.

5 claims: 5 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported A Facebook profile published a video of LDK Youth Forum members, including former LDK MP Paris Guri, holding milk bottles, and a second video in which Guri purportedly praises Albin Kurti, shared with a Serbian-language caption calling him a beauty.

Causal attribution. Krypometer's description of the posts; the posts were not inspected.

  • kallxo.com(opens in new tab) supports · Albanian
    'Një profil në Facebook ( arkiva ) ka publikuar një video të disa të rinjëve, pjesë të Forumit të Rinisë së LDK, të cilët mbajnë në duar shishe me qumësht.'; '“Na nuk dimë, na veç qumësht pimë.”- pretendohet se po thuhet në këtë video, pjesë e së cilës është edhe ish deputeti i LDK, Paris Guri.'; 'I njëjti profil ka publikuar edhe një video tjetër të ish deputetit Paris Guri ( arkiva ), në të cilën ai pretendohet se thot: “Pasha Zotin hajgare kam ba, Albini është baba.”'; 'Videoja është shpërndarë me mbishkrimin në gjuhën serbe, duke e quajtur ish deputetin Guri, si “bukuroshe”.'
Reported Krypometer reports that HIVE gave a 97 per cent probability that the milk-bottle video was edited with AI and that a Google Lens search found the original photo, published by Guri, in which the group raise two fingers instead of holding milk bottles.

Causal attribution. The fact-checker's own analysis; a detector probability plus a reverse image search to the original, not a confirmation of the tool used.

  • kallxo.com(opens in new tab) supports · Albanian
    'Videoja ka elemente që është gjeneruar përmes Inteligjencës Artificiale, prandaj Krypometër e ka testuar atë në HIVE, platformë për detektimin e përmbajtjeve AI. Rezultatet e HIVE thonë se është fabrikuar, pasi e njëjta ka një probabilitet prej 97% ( arkiva ) se është edituar përmes Inteligjencës Artificiale.'; 'Tutje, Krypometër përmes kërkimit të fotografisë në Google Lens e ka gjetur fotografinë origjinale, e cila ishte publikuar nga ish deputeti, Paris Guri. Në fotografinë origjinale , Guri dhe të tjerët nuk kanë shishe me qumësht në duar, por i kanë ngritur dy gishta, simbolin e Lidhjes Demokratike të Kosovës.'
Reported Krypometer reports that HIVE results show the second video and the speech in it were manipulated with AI.

Causal attribution. The fact-checker's own detector analysis; no numeric score is given for this video.

  • kallxo.com(opens in new tab) supports · Albanian
    'Krypometër e ka testuar këtë video në Hive dhe rezultatet ( arkiva ) tregojnë se videoja dhe fjalimi në të janë të manipuluara përmes Inteligjencës Artificiale.'
Reported Guri told Krypometer that the videos are manipulated.

Causal attribution. The depicted politician's own statement as reported by Krypometer.

  • kallxo.com(opens in new tab) supports · Albanian
    'Krypometër ka kontaktuar me ish deputetin e LDK, Paris Guri. Ai ka thënë se videot janë të manipuluara.'
Reported The article was published in the run-up to Kosovo's early parliamentary election set for 7 June 2026.

Causal attribution. Context given in the article.

  • kallxo.com(opens in new tab) supports · Albanian
    'U.d. presidentja e Republikës së Kosovës, Albulena Haxhiu, e ka caktuar datën 07.06.2026 për mbajtjen e zgjedhjeve të parakohshme në Kosovë'

Sources

1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Albanian article read on 2026-10-28 through the publisher's own WordPress search feed (kallxo.com/feed/ with a site search query, full post content), because the article page returns a Cloudflare challenge; translated by the research agent (an AI). Locators are verbatim Albanian. Applies to s1.

Event countries: Kosovo. Affected-person countries: Kosovo. Court countries: Unknown.

The videos depict a former member of the Assembly of Kosovo and members of a Kosovo party's youth forum and were reported in the run-up to Kosovo's June 2026 early election (Kallxo Krypometer); XK is the code commonly used for Kosovo, which has no officially assigned ISO alpha-2 code. Where the profile is run is not stated. No court is involved.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-28: Published because a fact-checker assessed both videos as AI-manipulated with a detector and, for one, traced the original photo, and the former MP shown said the videos are manipulated. All details are attributed to Krypometer's report.

People described

A former member of the Assembly of Kosovo for the LDK, shown in two AI-manipulated videos posted by a Facebook profile before the June 2026 election

People reported harmed in this case

1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

One person: the former LDK MP depicted in both videos, who told Krypometer the videos are manipulated (Kallxo Krypometer). Exact 1. The LDK Youth Forum members shown in the first video are not counted because no response or consequence is reported for them; viewers are not counted.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#political-deepfake#ai-video#fact-check#election

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Fact-checkers say AI-manipulated videos of a former LDK MP and party youth members circulated before Kosovo's June 2026 election; he says they are manipulated. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-kosovo-ai-manipulated-videos-of-former-ldk-mp-and-party-youth-members

BibTeX

@misc{2026_kosovo_ai_manipulated_videos_of_former_ldk_mp_and_party_youth_members,
  title = {Fact-checkers say AI-manipulated videos of a former LDK MP and party youth members circulated before Kosovo's June 2026 election; he says they are manipulated},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-kosovo-ai-manipulated-videos-of-former-ldk-mp-and-party-youth-members}
}

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