“I Was Shattered”: Deepfakes Target Women Leaders In Pakistan
Lahore: Pakistani politician Azma Bukhari is haunted by a counterfeit image of herself — a sexualised deepfake video published to discredit her role as one of the nation’s few female leaders. “I was shattered when it came into my knowledge,” said 48-year-old Bukhari, the information minister of Pakistan’s most populous province of Punjab. Deepfakes —…