The creator of the Rashmika deepfake video Mandanna said he is a big fan of the actor and made the video to gain followers for the Rashmika fan page he runs.
Eemani Naveen’s Instagram followers went from 90,000 to 1,08,000 in two weeks after he posted a deeply fake video of actor Rashmik Mandanna on a fan page he manages.
A 23-year-old Guntur man, who was arrested after two months of investigation into the Rashmika Mandanna deepfake case, said he wanted to increase the number of followers on the page.
But after the video got the attention of actors and the who’s who of the film industry, including Amitabh Bachchan, condemned the video, Naveen got scared, deleted the video and changed the name of his Insta channel.
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Police said at least 500 social media accounts were analyzed over the past two months for the investigation.
So far, the police have questioned those who shared the video, but have not been able to find the original creator.
Soon after the FIR was registered in the case on November 10, the Delhi Police wrote to Meta to get the URL and other details to identify the accused who shot the video and posted it on social media.
Meanwhile, Naveen deleted all digital data from his devices.
