Deepfakes

DEEPFAKES AND THE RIGHT TO TRUTH examines one of the most urgent transformations of the modern era: the collapse of certainty in a world where sight and sound can be fabricated with perfect precision. Drawing on decades of international legal experience, the book traces how synthetic media destabilises human perception, fractures shared reality, and challenges institutions that once anchored public trust.
Beginning with the erosion of sensory confidence, the book reveals how deepfakes exploit the vulnerabilities of human cognition as they accelerate through an information ecosystem already shaped by speed, saturation, and algorithmic amplification. It then turns to the long philosophical struggle between appearance and reality, from Plato's shadows to modern theories of interpretation, power and narrative control.
The analysis expands across psychology, law, geopolitics, culture and technology, showing how synthetic media undermines courts, journalism, democracy, commerce, community trust and collective memory. Case studies illustrate the practical consequences: fraudulent corporate instructions, political manipulation, fabricated emergencies, identity theft and the quiet epidemic of synthetic sexual imagery.
In its concluding movement, the book proposes a coherent global framework designed to preserve the informational conditions upon which democratic life and human dignity depend. It argues that no nation can manage these threats alone, and that a coordinated international architecture of duties, safeguards and verification mechanisms is essential if truth is to survive the synthetic age.
DEEPFAKES AND THE RIGHT TO TRUTH offers a clear, comprehensive and intellectually rigorous guide for policymakers, judges, scholars, educators, journalists and citizens seeking to understand the scale of the transformation underway, and the choices now facing societies as they confront a world where truth can be effortlessly undone.