Last month (21 April), the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Dutch Parliament had an online call with Leonid Volkov, Alexi Navalny's chief of staff.
Or so the parliamentarians thought. It turned out that they may have been talking to a deepfake version of Volkov.
This could be a momentous event: The first time that deepfake technology is abused to interfere with high-level politics in the EU.
There appears to be a growing amount of political cheapfakes – videos that are man...
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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International, a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation. Madeline Brady is the digital programme officer at DRI.