Deepfake Technology Explained: Risks, Uses, and How to Detect Fake Videos

With the help of artificial intelligence, deepfakes and carefully constructed fake profiles, North Korean agents are trying to get into technology companies through online applications. The cyber operation was discovered by the Flemish entrepreneur Simon Wijckmans who runs a cybersecurity company in San Francisco. What starts as a strange video call with a ‘software developer’ grows into the discovery of an international digital espionage operat…

Deepfake Technology Explained: Risks, Uses, and How to Detect Fake Videos

While technology advances at breakneck speed, misinformation and disinformation are keeping pace. Deepfakes are getting quite common on social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram. Recently, a deepfake video of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was circulating on social media sites where he seemed to tell Ukrainian soldiers to surrender to Russian soldiers. Even though the video clearly appeared to be a deepfake…