As Deep Fake Videos Of Katrina Kaif And Rashmika Mandanna Trigger Outrage, Here Is What The Law Says

Experts and personalities from the film industry have vouched for stronger legal framework to curb such deep fake videos. India has laws that can be used to combat the menace.

Deep fake videos of Katrina Kaif and Rashmika Mandanna went viral on social media earlier this week

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Deep Fakes are in the spotlight again after videos of two actors — Katrina Kaif and Rashmika Mandanna — went viral on social media earlier this week, leading to outrage among netizens and prompting the Centre to issue advisories to social media platforms and intermediaries. While Mandanna's face was morphed into a video posted by a British-Indian woman named Zara Patel on Instagram, a fight scene of Katrina clad in a towel from her upcoming flick Tiger 3 was digitally altered,