Deepfakes and the Age of AI-Made Lies — How Synthetic Media Is Shaking the World Deepfakes and the Age of AI-Made Lies — How Synthetic Media Is Shaking the World By FlashGlobalNews — Published: September 30, 2025 Pakistan Power Outage (July 2025) AI Candidates in Europe (July 2025) Saudi Residency for Freelancers Part 1 — What Are Deepfakes and Why Is Everyone Talking About Them? "Deepfake" is the catch-all name for images, video, or audio that has been generated or convincingly altered by artificial intelligence so that it looks and sounds like a real person saying or doing something they never did. Early deepfakes felt like internet curiosities; today they're tools for political theater, fraud, harassment and corporate sabotage. In September 2025 the world saw multiple highly visible uses of AI-generated media that pushed the issu...