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 ...

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

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 ...

On a March 2024 National Association of State Chief Information Officers call with both government and corporate IT leaders, an old security problem was highlighted that has evolved into a current top ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sora by OpenAI at the top of the free app rankings on the App Store. When OpenAI released its AI video-generation app, Sora, in September, it promised that “you are in control of your likeness ...

On May 19, 2023, a photograph appeared on what was then still called Twitter showing smoke billowing from the Pentagon after an apparent explosion. The image quickly went viral. Within minutes, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Turning Point PAC town hall at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Ariz., on June 06, 2024. Former President Donald Trump shared his mixed feelings on ...