AI-generated videos of young, attractive women calling for Poland to leave the European Union (EU) have gathered hundreds of thousands of views.
The videos shared on the TikTok channel called “Prawilne Polki,” which have since been removed, targeted users aged 15 to 25, according to an investigation by Res Future, a European analytics collective.
The AI-generated women said they wanted Polexit to have freedom of choice, even if there’s a financial price to pay. Others urged not to fall for scaremongering and have a “calm conversation” about the consequences of Polexit, Euronews reports.
An independent analyst, Radek Karbowski, calculated that these videos gathered 200,000 views and 20,000 likes in two weeks. He noted that the 10% ratio of views to likes is high and impacts the content's reach, even if the likes come from bots.
While the majority of Poles support the country’s EU membership, euroscepticism has reached a record high this year. A survey by Wirtualna Polska/IBRiS found that 24.7% respondents supported Polexit, while 65.7% opposed it.
Anti-EU sentiment is primarily fueled by right-wing politicians, who criticize the Union’s policies on issues such as migration and national sovereignty.
Poland’s minister of foreign affairs, Radoslaw Sikorski, has recently said he was concerned at “the amount of fake news or outright lies” about the EU, calling on the bloc to address it.
While Polexit is highly unlikely in the near future, several major international players would benefit from tensions between the bloc and Poland, a rapidly rising economic power in Europe.
Russia was shown multiple times to conduct misinformation campaigns that include anti-EU themes, as the Kremlin sees the bloc as an ideological rival.
The US national security strategy announced in December criticized the EU for “censorship of free speech” and “suppression of political opposition,” among other alleged faults.
The “fuller version” of the document that circulated before official release named Poland as one of the countries the US should work more closely with, with the goal of “pulling them away from the EU.”
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