Can You Believe What You See? A video goes viral. In it, a world leader announces a shocking policy decision. Millions watch, react, and sha...

Can You Believe What You See?

A video goes viral. In it, a world leader announces a shocking policy decision. Millions watch, react, and share within hours. The only problem: the video is entirely fabricated. The voice, the facial expressions, and the setting (18) __________. By the time fact-checkers flag it as false, the damage is already done. Incidents like this are no longer hypothetical. In 2025, hyper-realistic voice cloning and AI-generated video are actively fueling fraud (19) __________. 

What makes this threat particularly serious is how convincing the technology has become. When looking at a video or an image, people are likely to believe (20) __________. Written misinformation invites suspicion; fabricated video bypasses it. A striking example occurred in early 2024, when a journalist from France 24 was targeted with a deepfake (21) __________, distorting his reporting and undermining his credibility. If professional journalists can be impersonated so convincingly, ordinary audiences have very little defence.

Experts agree that the solution cannot rely on technology alone. (22) __________. In an era when seeing is no longer believing, the ability to question what we consume may be the most essential skill of all.

[Adapted from https://unric.org/en/]

Question 18:
A. is generating by artificial intelligence to deceive viewers

B. were all generated by artificial intelligence
C. produced by artificial intelligence for fraudulent purposes
D. was generated by artificial intelligence

Question 19:
A. and the erosion of trust in media, and institutions, digital communication
B. as trust in media and institutions erodes, creating more reliable reporting
C. so as to erode trust in media, institutions, and digital communication
D. while eroding trust in media, institutions, and digital communication

Question 20:
A. that they see and have less likelihood of assuming to look at AI-generated content
B. what they see and are less likely to assume they are looking at AI-generated content
C. in what they are seeing and are less likely to assume that they look at AI-generated content
D. they are looking at AI-generated content and are less likely to assume what they see

Question 21:
A. which both his voice and article headline are manipulated
B. manipulating both his voice and article headline by him
C. so that it manipulated both his voice and article headline
D. that manipulated both his voice and article headline

Question 22:

A. Journalists and media organisations have a responsibility to invest in training their staff on deepfake detection, while the general public needs to cultivate media literacy skills and be sceptical of information encountered online

B. Although journalists and media organisations invest in training staff on deepfake detection, the general public should cultivate media literacy skills so that they can believe all information encountered online without any suspicion

C. Because the general public needs to cultivate media literacy skills and be sceptical of information online, journalists and media organisations are responsible for training their staff to ensure the accuracy of digital content

D. Journalists and media organisations have a responsibility to invest in training their staff on deepfake detection in order that the general public would cultivate media literacy skills and improve their own digital awareness