An FAQ from the future — how we struggled and defeated deepfakes

Frida Ghitis: Deepfake content is a danger to democracy.

She says the largest coordinated deepfake attack in history took place the day after the November 2024 election.

Ghitis says the breakthrough came in early 2026 from a working group of digital journalists from U.S. and international news organizations.

The FACStamp is what technologists call “fragile”: The first time an image, video or audio file is falsified by AI , the stamp disappears.

A bipartisan group of senators and House members plans to introduce the Right to Reality Act.

Even the AI industry supports the use of FACStamps .