Deepfake technology a cybersecurity threat that calls for multilateral co-operation

Deepfakes pose many potential harms, but with eroding trust in governments and other institutions and increasing election interference from foreign actors, electoral processes are growing especially vulnerable.

Deepfake technologies have been used to commit financial fraud, cause unrest and violence, and even to prank world leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who, in 2020, spent more than 10 minutes on the phone with Russian pranksters who used a bot to pose as climate activist Greta Thunberg. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ABBY MACDONALD

November 12, 2021

Katie Jones was a pretty, successful young woman that worked for a prestigious Amer...

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