Meta, Google and other social-media companies brace for heightened deepfake perils ahead of 2024 elections

The first U.S. presidential election in the era of deepfakes is presenting officials with challenges never before seen at a time when tech giants are scaling back their cyber-defenses.Fabricated images and audio clips designed to sway voters are raising alarms in the days leading up to the Republican Primary in South Carolina on Feb 25 and Super Tuesday on March 5, when both parties will hold primaries in a number of states.“Are protections in place sufficient to thwart” the influence of targeted deepfakes ...