{
  "id": 9635412,
  "title": "The medieval world had its own 'deepfakes'—church officials cited a fake imperial decree for centuries",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/the-medieval-world-had-its-own-deepfakes-church-officials-cited-a-9635412",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-24T22:00:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-medieval-world-deepfakes-church-cited.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "With deepfakes on the rise, forgery and deception are often viewed as distinctly modern problems—a new era of misinformation made possible by artificial intelligence. One of the first alarming cases occurred at the start of the war in Ukraine, when a doctored video appeared to show President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling his soldiers to lay down their weapons.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Conversation",
        "title": "The medieval world had its own ‘deepfakes’ – church officials cited a fake imperial decree for centuries",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/the-medieval-world-had-its-own-deepfakes-church-officials-cited-a",
        "published": "2026-09-24T12:45:34.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}