A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But ...

Earlier this year, a Hong Kong finance worker was duped into transferring $25 million to a fraudster that had deepfaked his chief financial officer and ordered the transfer via video call. The case is ...

AI-generated imagery of people doing things they haven’t done in real life is increasingly being deployed in malicious ways. For years, experts have warned that deepfakes—AI-generated videos, images, ...

For nearly a decade, Bree Smith was a familiar face in Nashville. But, in January, the mom and former TV meteorologist stopped appearing on the local CBS-affiliated station — a decision she made after ...

Deepfake and AI technology’s ability to manipulate photos and even videos has made the problem of sexual images being posted online without consent even worse. Google recently announced new steps to ...

AI porn is what happens when technology liberates misogyny from social constraints. In the day or two between my editor suggesting that I write about AI deepfake porn and my replying, “Great idea, ...

"That cognitive dissonance has a cost": The 1984-esque future of trust in media is slowly becoming reality.

Weeks after former President Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., a video circulated on social media that appeared to show Vice President Kamala Harris saying at a rally, “Donald ...

In 2024, election officials, social media platform managers, and artificial intelligence developers were poised for an “AI apocalypse” that didn’t arrive. They feared that fake content would deceive ...

Editor’s note: Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can ...

Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected ...