The government’s move to invite public consultation on its proposals to regulate deepfakes by putting in place a legal framework is a right step at the right time. For too long, the menace of synthetically generated content has grown unchecked, warping trust in digital spaces and exploiting the openness of social media.

The recent spate of manipulated videos targeting senior ministers only highlights the urgency of the problem. Most of these are not mischievous pranks but calculated digital forgeries designed to deceive citizens and defraud them. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has warned that we are entering an era of hacking trust, clearly highlighting the rampant misuse to which technology can be put.

Therefore, the move to formally define and regulate synthetic content under th

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