The high-stakes battle to tame deepfakes
Fact-checkers at Factly, a civic-tech and fact-checking initiative based in Hyderabad, ran the three-minute-long video through multiple artificial intelligence (AI) detection tools. They found that the voices had been fabricated. A website link in it led to a fraudulent clone of a government portal. By the time the clip reached Factly’s newsroom, it had already…

