The troubling rise of 'deep fakes': How AI is making it hard to know what's real

In All The President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of how they broke the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon, the reporters describe meeting their key informant in an underground car park near a bridge over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. Seeking an alias that summed up how far the mole was buried in the heart of Nixon's administration, their thoughts turned to a notorious pornographic movie which was making national headlines at the time: Deep Throat. Today, almost half a century after Watergate, politics and porn are combining once again to produce toxic scandal that could bring down a president. The difference is that this time the scoops aren't true....