So from fake news, we have moved to ‘deepfake’ news. According to cyber experts, deepfake is the new frontier in fake newswhere artificial intelligence is used to make anyone say or do anything on video.

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Digital fakery is not new — we know photos can be morphed, videos can be edited. Face swapping tech is not new either. But now, with deep learning by machines, these tricks can be automated, and the tools are accessible to many more people, says Rishabh Srivastava of Loki Technologies, a machine learning startup.