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It's a thorny question I've faced with thousands of my own photos, and now it's become even thornier: How much can you edit a photo...

(Bloomberg) -- In a recent post on TikTok, a woman stands solemnly in front of armed soldiers in bulletproof vests.Most Read from BloombergWall Street’s Furious Bull Run Gets Reality Check: Markets WrapHow Suspects Laundered Billions in Singapore for YearsBitcoin Surges Past $42,000 as Crypto Rally Gathers SteamIsrael’s Wider War Has US Cautioning of ‘Strategic Defeat’Here’s How to Invest in Gold as It Hits an All-Time High“My body was exposed, almost li...

TikTok is struggling to take down videos of so-called digital resurrections. Most recent are the Israel-Hamas war victim videos, which appear designed to generate both sympathy and virality, though their creators are often anonymous.

It's a thorny question I've faced with thousands of my own photos, and now it's become even thornier: How much can you edit a photo...

Whether you can trust that photo depends a lot on context.

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Many of us have heard of the old hoax in which victims receive phone calls from "police" or a "doctor" (actually scammers) saying that a loved one is in trouble...

Originally published on March 12, 2021 6:54 pm In a crop of viral videos featuring Tom Cruise, its not the actors magic trick nor his joke-telling thats deceptive — but the fact that its not actually Tom Cruise at all. The videos, uploaded to TikTok in recent weeks by the account @deeptomcruise, have raised new fears over the proliferation of believable deepfakes — the nickname for media generated by artificial intelligence technology showing phony events that often seem realistic enough t...