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Manipulated media and deepfakes
Edited images, cheap fakes and synthetic voices: what to look for, why the context matters more than the pixels, and how to report uncertainty honestly.
In this note
- Cheap fakes vs deepfakes
- Visual and audio red flags
- Context checks that beat pixel-peeping