In May 2022, a song disparaging Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – in a voice that sounded a lot like legendary rapper Eminem -- went viral on social media.

An AFP Mexico-based journalist discovered not only that the song was a deepfake, but also how it might have been created.

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