Quote:Deepfakes haven’t quite lost the power to surprise, but given their wholesale media saturation in the last year or so, there’s a sneaking suspicion in some quarters that they may have missed the bus. When people throw a fake Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn online these days, the response seems to be fairly split between “Wow, that’s funny” and barely even amused.
 
LinkedIn, deepfakes, and malign influence campaigns

With this in mind, I was fascinated to see “The role of deepfakes in malign influence campaigns” published by StratCom in November, which primarily focused on the more reserved but potentially devastating form of deepfakes shenanigans. It’s not fake Trump, it isn’t pretend Boris Johnson declaring aliens are invading; it’s background noise level interference designed to work its silent way up a chain of command.