Yanis Varoufakis

Let me remind myself which this video was.

And I started looking at it.

And

It took almost two minutes before I realized it wasn't me.

And what's even worse is why I realized it wasn't me.

Because I was wearing a blue shirt.

with this background here, but that blue shirt had never left my island home in Aegina.

And I thought, how come I'm wearing that blue shirt against this background?

That's when I started thinking, hang on a second, I don't remember saying these things.

But the even eerier aspect of it was that they were things I could have said.

But then, you know, interjected within that flow of arguments that I could have made, which I hadn't made, there were statements that I would never have made.

And that's where the dangerous part comes, especially for people who are politically exposed as I am.

I have lots of enemies that would love to, you know, pretend, present me as somebody that said something, let's say, anti-Semitic in order to take the wind out of my criticism of Israel.

Similarly with Russia, I have made enemies everywhere because I believe that Putin is a war criminal.

At the same time, I think NATO are war criminals too in the way they've been expanding and giving Putin the opportunity to do that which he's doing.

But if you're standing against both NATO and Putin, it's very easy for somebody to use deepfake in order to insert the sentence in what you're saying that completely destroys your credibility.

So I wrote to Google because the videos I saw were mostly on YouTube.

They were on Instagram and on TikTok.

So I wrote to Google and I didn't get an answer for days.

And then they asked me to fill forms in.