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Deepfake Diplomacy: Crisis Management in an Age of Synthetic Media
Season 1
Episode 19
Published 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Description
As synthetic media becomes a tool of statecraft and subversion, deepfakes pose an acute challenge to diplomatic crisis management. This post examines emerging state and non-state playbooks for combating deception at three levels: attribution, narrative containment, and technical watermarking. From false flag videos sparking regional instability to proactive watermarking systems that could become the Geneva Conventions of digital media, this is a strategic guide for the era when seeing is no longer believing.