Vietnam’s Digital Dilemma: Building Trust in the Age of Deepfakes Vietnam is confronting a new and formidable challenge as it accelerates its ambitious digital transformation: the rise of synthetic media that can deceive, manipulate, and erode public trust on an unprecedented scale. The threat is no longer confined to the technical realm of cybersecurity; it has expanded into the very fabric of social and political life. As artificial intelligence makes it cheaper, faster, and easier to create hyper-realistic deepfakes—videos, audio recordings, and images that are virtually indistinguishable from reality—the country’s leadership, media, and legal experts are scrambling to construct a…

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