# Deepfakes, videos manipulated by face-swapping technology, are showing up on the wildly popular 60-second video app TikTok

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/deepfakes-videos-manipulated-by-face-swapping-technology-are-showing-up-on-the-wildly-popular-60-second-video-app-tiktok-2/
- Published: 2020-02-09T09:00:21-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption:  TikTok […] Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Deepfakes, a type of face-swapping technology, is showing up on the wildly popular 60-second video app TikTok. The short-form video app TikTok, popular among Generation Z, is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance. Users of the app are inserting their face, and faces of popular TV characters like Michael Scott from The Office, into videos that feature someone else. […] Click here to view original web page at www.businessinsider.com Curated by Theresa Wysocki See Full Bio