Keyword topic
11 articles from 8 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention deepfake, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned deepfake, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
Axios mentioned it first (Oct 2, 2026, 12:38 PM EDT). Right-leaning outlets followed 45 hours later, least biased outlets 14 days later.
One row per source that mentioned deepfake, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention deepfake, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 950 |
| Axios | 0.3% | 1 | 374 |
| Semafor | 0.2% | 1 | 455 |
| UPI | 0.5% | 1 | 219 |
| CBS News | 0.2% | 3 | 1517 |
| Reason | 0.7% | 2 | 305 |
| The Free Press | 1.5% | 1 | 69 |
| Breitbart | 0.1% | 1 | 1826 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention deepfake, Sep 27 to Oct 26, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning2 of 15 sources
- <0.1%
- Least biased2 of 8 sources
- 0.1%
- Right-leaning4 of 15 sources
- 0.2%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +2.8: covered more by right-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention deepfake. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
2 sources have no MBFC bias score and are not shown.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as deepfake, Sep 27 to Oct 26: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
The search icon lists the articles that mention both.
Example articles
The article that features deepfake most, per source.
- The GuardianOpposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of election
- AxiosAI campaign deepfakes are starting to draw legal threats
- SemaforDemand for AI experts brings deepfakes and chatbot impostors
- UPIBrazil's presidential runoff puts AI, deepfakes, Meta under scrutiny
- CBS NewsDetecting deepfakes, in a world where even reality is suspect
- ReasonClaiming Video Was "Deepfake" Not Enough to Require Excluding It, Even Absent Evidence of Who Recorded It
- The Free PressTGIF: The Deepfake of the Deepfake
- BreitbartOpenAI: AI-Generated Deepfakes Will Become Impossible to Verify
All articles
Every article that mentions deepfake, Sep 27 to Oct 26. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.
| Article | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reason | "AI Deepfakes in Court"Reason | 0.70● | |
| The Guardian | Opposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of electionThe Guardian | 0.80● | |
| UPI | Brazil's presidential runoff puts AI, deepfakes, Meta under scrutinyUPI | 0.60● | |
| The Free Press | TGIF: The Deepfake of the DeepfakePaid postThe Free Press | 0.70● | |
| Breitbart | OpenAI: AI-Generated Deepfakes Will Become Impossible to VerifyBreitbart | 0.90● | |
| Semafor | Demand for AI experts brings deepfakes and chatbot impostorsSemafor | 0.80● | |
| Reason | Claiming Video Was "Deepfake" Not Enough to Require Excluding It, Even Absent Evidence of Who Recorded ItReason | 0.80● | |
| CBS News | Federal appeals court pauses Minnesota's AI nudification banCBS News | 0.40 | |
| CBS News | Detecting deepfakes, in a world where even reality is suspectCBS News | 0.90● | |
| CBS News | Detecting deepfakes, in a world where even reality is suspectCBS News | 0.90● | |
| Axios | AI campaign deepfakes are starting to draw legal threatsAxios | 0.80● |