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False materials related to parties, candidates for prime minister and deputies for the parliamentary elections to be held on 09.02.2025 in Kosovo have been distributed on social networks since the beginning of the election campaign. To create and spread disinformation, unlike previous campaigns, artificial intelligence is now being used. Videos and photos produced by artificial intelligence have been created and distributed on social networks, including Facebook and TikTok. On 13.01.2025, the Facebook page PDK Nëndega Fshati Oshlan published a photograph showing the candidate for prime minister from the Self-Determination Movement, incumbent Prime Minister Albin Kurti, dressed as a pilgrim. “I’m pretending to pray, just to take votes from those who call themselves Muslims, then I’ll also pass the law for homosexuals” – is written in the photo. After searching with the PimEyes image search engine, KALLXO.com found that Kurti’s face was used to produce this photograph. Through Google Lens search, KALLXO.com also confirmed that the same photo was published on several other pages, which had indicated that the photo was produced by Artificial Intelligence. Also, on 05.01.2025, a Facebook profile published several photographs of Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Albin Kurti. The photos claim that the Prime Minister is wearing a military uniform. KALLXO.com, through the Hive Moderation photo verification application, found that the images have a 99.9% likelihood of being produced with Artificial Intelligence. Through another application, PimEyes, KALLXO.com verified that Kurti’s face was cut from other photos to produce the published photographs. Besides photographs, various videos are being fabricated through Artificial Intelligence, with politicians given someone else’s voice. On 28.12.2024, a Facebook page published a video showing the chairman of the Alliance for Kosovo’s Future and candidate for prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj. The page claims that Haradinaj says “O Albin our son, how is Self-Determination going”. To verify this video, KALLXO.com analyzed the material and noted that the voice was cut from a satirical content video from the humorous group Stupcat, titled “Stupcat – Happy Independence 2006”. KALLXO.com checked the authenticity of the video and found that a photograph of Ramush Haradinaj, initially published on BBC under Reuters authorship, was used and after AI processing was converted into video material. According to internet data, this photograph was taken on 11.06.2017, when Haradinaj was voting in the parliamentary elections held that day in Kosovo. Videos produced by artificial intelligence were also published on TikTok. **What is the impact of artificial intelligence on the campaign?** Alban Zeneli, Professor of Journalism at the University of Pristina, has also observed more pronounced use of artificial intelligence in spreading disinformation during this parliamentary election campaign in Kosovo, which is held on 09.02.2025. According to him, recent technological developments in the field of artificial intelligence may have contributed to this fact. “The use of artificial intelligence, unlike other campaigns, is extremely large, perhaps also due to recent technological developments regarding forms related to chatgpt and other creators of content through artificial intelligence. These artificial intelligence applications are being exploited in three areas: in content creation, in the creation and maintenance of profiles which have photos, videos and textual content generated by artificial intelligence” – said Zeneli. According to the university professor, artificial intelligence is being used by each political party, with the aim of disseminating their political message on a large scale. He added that this phenomenon has a negative impact, because the message disseminated through artificial intelligence is false. “None of the political parties make an exception here. In my observation so far, each political party or virtual supporters created with artificial intelligence are different profiles on social media, on Tiktok and Facebook mainly through which political messages are disseminated to citizens” – Zeneli added among other things. According to him, this phenomenon has a negative impact because it creates the false impression that a candidate or political party is supported by a large number of people on social media. “But in reality it is not so because all these profiles we discussed are created with artificial intelligence” – he said. Calling artificial intelligence a technological innovation that has affected most fields, especially those related to online communication and online platforms, university professor Muhamet Jahiri considers the use of artificial intelligence during the election campaign to be dangerous. Jahiri, also head of the Department of Journalism at the University of Pristina, says that a legal mechanism should have been created to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. “The inclusion of this intelligence in the election campaign is something dangerous, unethical and manipulative. The relevant institutions should have preceded the election cycle with legal mechanisms regulating its use during elections, similar to how Western countries, including the USA, have acted. The use of AI in a society that essentially has critical judgment and education levels far behind developed countries makes this issue even more serious” – said Jahiri. He stressed that misinformation through AI is difficult to combat and identify and above all unpredictable by the majority of citizens. “This is being used extremely by those pre-political groups that are essentially political to denigrate opponents, to attract undecided and easily accessible citizens, but also to gain political ground in elections” – said Jahiri. According to professor Jahiri, the purpose of spreading misinformation through artificial intelligence is to benefit from the election results. “The purpose of its use is to reach voters who are prey to this content which can hardly deconstruct their message, to touch their emotional side, and to divert them from their real problems, by creating through AI false myths, problem solutions, misinformation through false context and other forms of manipulation. The main purpose is to benefit from the election results, propaganda that they are the best choice, denigration of political opponents, denigration of journalists and opinion leaders by selling that these are victims of a campaign from them, but also to divert them from real problems such as the non-realization of many projects, the enormous inflation with which citizens are faced, but also the fact that the absolute majority of entities and especially the main entity in the absence of presenting a four-year government program.” – emphasized university professor Muahmet Jahiri. Virtual assistants created by artificial intelligence have become very advanced and are used in various fields, such as customer service, medicine, journalism and education. Some of the virtual assistants that have been developed and are being used recently are ChatGPT (OpenAI); Bard (Google, now Gemini); Claude (Anthropic); Llama (Meta) and DeepSeek developed by Chinese company DeepSeek AI. The campaign for the parliamentary elections in Kosovo officially began on 11.01.2025. For one month, political parties are expected to hold election meetings with citizens to gain their trust in the race for parliamentary elections to be held on 09.02.2025. For these elections, 28 political entities have been certified with 1,280 candidates. According to the law, during the election campaign period, political entities have the right to: – organize and hold meetings/political events, roundtable discussions, press conferences, speeches, or any other similar activity, through which they can freely express their opinions – with the aim of gaining support from their voters; – publish and distribute posters, advertisements and other material related to an election campaign; campaign through any television, radio or cable operator, as well as through magazines, press, telephone network, postal system or any other type of advertising media – in accordance with CEC rules and other applicable laws. These will be the first regular elections that Kosovo has held since declaring independence in 2008.

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Today in Kosovo, cold conditions are expected with high chances of mixed precipitation, where rain will turn into snow. • **Current Conditions:** Light snow or sleet is falling in many areas. • **Temperatures:** Highs will reach around **2°C to 4°C**, while lows will drop to **-3°C** tonight. • **Precipitation:** There is a **60-80% chance** of precipitation during the day. Snow accumulation is expected to be minimal, likely less than 2 cm. • **Wind:** Wind blows from the northeast at speeds of **15 to 25 km/h**, making the weather feel noticeably colder. • **Warnings:** A **Yellow Alert for Snow/Ice** is in effect until midnight. For real-time updates, you can check Meteoblue for Kosovo or the forecast from Prishtina Weather.

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The Kosovo Meteorological Institute informs that today, January 28, 2025, the weather will be mainly sunny with scattered showers.3333g

“Minimum temperatures will range between 0°C and 3°C, while maximum temperatures will range from 13°C to 16°C. A light wind will blow from the southwest.” – informs the KHM