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Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline

Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline

Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline
15 May 2026

The "Great British People" Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing "the overwhelming scale of mass immigration" and asking viewers if they miss "the Britain we used to know".

But it is not clear whether the creator of the videos knows the UK at all: the account is really run by someone based in Sri Lanka.

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