It is unclear who made the deepfake, but the Ukrainian government had been warning for weeks that Russia may push manipulated media. And, the same day, major social media companies removed the deepfake for violating their policies on misinformation and manipulated media. The Zelensky deepfake failed to unleash confusion and mayhem, as seems to have been the intention. And the deepfake clearly violated social media platform policies against manipulated content, allowing the deepfake to be removed, Gregory said. But the experience of the Zelensky deepfake provides some clues for what businesses can do to meet the threat.

Source: CNN April 02, 2022 01:25 UTC