As news broke that US forces had captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and flown him out of the country, a puzzling video began racing across social media. It showed crowds of Venezuelans kneeling in the streets, crying, waving flags, and thanking US President Donald Trump for what captions described as their 'liberation.'
Within hours, the clip had millions of views. By the next day, fact-checkers and digital forensics experts were calling it something else entirely: a deepfake.
