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Photo: Samuel Corum, Twitter, YouTube (Getty Images)Digitally altered and AI-generated videos, dubbed “deepfakes,” have existed for years and have recently seen drastic improvements. Those videos, mixed with the extreme reach of social media and declining trust in traditional media, have experts worried of harmful rises in political disinformation; those same experts are also worried we’re quickly approaching a new, more complicated issue: lawyers and liars claiming real videos are fakes. How to authenticate a piece of…

This article is part of our new women in gaming series Makers of Now.Jessica Boddy isn’t your typical Twitch steamer. The Chicago resident spends half of her days working as a multimedia editor at the magazine Popular Science, where she’s spent years helping craft health and science coverage, including at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. When she’s not working as a journalist, she’s better known as JessCapricorn, a rapidly growing Twitch streamer on a journey through some of the industry’s most notoriously…