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Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia

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69% Informative

Fake personas are making it easier for criminals and fraudsters to construct fake personas in seconds .

The Federal Trade Commission says reports of job and employment related scams nearly tripled from 2020 to 2024 .

Some corporate professionals are turning to old-fashioned social engineering techniques to verify every fishy-seeming interaction they have.

Indiana University professor Jessica Eise says her research team has been forced to essentially become digital forensics experts.

She says the amount of time her team spent screening people was “exorbitant” and that they’ve turned to “snowball sampling” or having recruiting people they know personally.

VR Score

62

Informative language

55

Neutral language

52

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

53

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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