Manufactured Enmity: The Role of AI-Generated Deepfakes in Spreading Islamophobic Propaganda: A Case Study Approach

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16881078

Abstract

This paper asks how far AI-facilitated deepfakes are being used to push Islamophobic messaging, with a focus on how deepfakes can stabilize reality and become a force in defining how society thinks. With the help of a qualitative content analysis of a body of specifically chosen deepfake videos shared on different social media platforms in the period between 2022 and 2025, the study divines peculiarities of thematic patterns, framing schemes, and the overall political purposes that underlie this material. This discussion shows that deepfakes are often used to reinforce harmful stereotypes, create fabricated evidence to justify discriminatory speech and employ algorithmic amplification to disseminate them more extensively. The scenario highlights the ethical, social, and policy implications of deepfake generated Islamophobia and highlights the urgent need to establish strict regulatory systems, elaborate media-literacy strategies, and sophisticated A.I.-detection programs to address this exponentially growing digital menace.

Keywords: Deepfakes, Islamophobia, Disinformation, Social Media, Platform Governance, Case Study