The deepfake threat is reshaping global politics

Russia and other states are tightening regulation of deepfakes as they become a national security issue rather than a technological curiosity

For most of modern history, “big politics” operated in conditions of information scarcity and an excess of interpretation. The digital age has flipped that equation. Today we face a scarcity of authenticity and an excess of content. Deepfakes – fabricated videos and images, often with audio, generated by artificial intelligence ...