In An Era Of Fake News, Advancing Face-Swap Apps Blur More Lines

Most people familiar with "face-swapping" know it as an innocuous social media feature. The result is rarely seamless and often funny. But as it grows more sophisticated, that technology has taken a sinister turn: It's now become easier to superimpose the faces of celebrities onto those of actors in pornographic films, resulting in highly-realistic fake videos. Deepfakes, as the digital form is called, takes its name from the Redditor "deepfakes," the first person known to create these fake porn videos. Celebrities Daisy Ridley, Gal Gadot and Taylor Swift are among deepfakes' early victims.