Deepfakes Have Left the Lab and Entered the Diplomatic Record

The structural shift visible in this week's coverage is that deepfakes have acquired a geopolitical address. The Islamabad case is instructive not because deepfake harassment is new, but because it landed precisely at the moment of a high-profile diplomatic event — creating a situation where the synthetic attack and the real event are now permanently indexed together ^[2]. That co-occurrence is not accidental; it reflects a targeting logic that exploits institutional visibility.