It felt “strange” for Armin Wolf to announce a feature in which he played a leading role. Fake videos on a large scale in which he supposedly advertises everything “from cryptocurrencies to sexual enhancers”, most recently fake drugs in a rewritten interview excerpt with the virologist Christian Drosten. “Of course it’s all fake.” He had digital expert and STANDARD columnist Ingrid Brodnig explain to himself and the audience on Monday evening why platforms do not remove such videos more quickly and what enormous danger increasingly better fakes pose to democracy.
