In the digital age it has never been easier to spread false information in digital age. Deepfake videos are created by employing deep learning artificial intelligence that scans a multitude of videos and photos of the person to be faked and then superimposes their face onto someone in an existing video. The technology first surfaced on Reddit, when a user called deepfakes posted a series of videos featuring movie stars and other female celebrities engaged in pornographic actions. Deepfakes have already been used to create realistic videos of Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin, among many others.”]
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