Trump Arrest Deepfake Photos Forecast a Strange and Scary Future

Developers “should already be on notice: if your product directly enables harms that are reasonably foreseeable, you can be held potentially liable,” Warner told the Washington Post after the image went viral. Meta, for its part, said it had labeled Higgins’ images as “misleading” on Facebook and Instagram. But fake photos of Trump in an orange jumpsuit remained easily findable by searching under the hashtag “#trumparrested.” Meanwhile, the series of photos posted by Higgins—clearly marked as false—remains up on Twitter.