The liar’s dividend of deepfake tech means we don’t trust what we can see
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By Elena Siniscalco Deepfake videos featuring everyone from Barack Obama to Tom Cruise are everywhere on social media. They could be fun memes – or they could be dangerous disinformation, writes Elena Siniscalco “The FBI has informed me that it is very likely that these are visitors of extraterrestrial nature”, said US President Joe Biden last week in a speech about the flying objects identified over US airspace. “I advise the American people to remain calm”, he added in a video that racked up millions of views. Except he didn’t. The video was a deepfake – a piece of multimedia content altered…