Tricksters have been faking media since Abraham Lincoln's day, but new technologies are now challenging how much we can believe what we see online or on TV. Do we need to simply become more skeptical about what we believe or have deep fakes opened a whole new world of misinformation. How much should we worry about deep fake technology?

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