Manish Kumar Das

Research indicates that deceitful videos tend to spread rapidly online and influence people’s opinions and
ideas. Because of this, video misinformation via deepfake video manipulation poses a significant online
threat. This study aims to discover what factors can influence viewers’ capability to distinguish deepfake
videos from genuine video footage. This work focuses on exploring deepfake videos’ potential use for
deception and misinformation by exploring people’s ability to determine whether videos are deepfakes in
a survey consisting of deepfake videos and original unedited videos. The participants viewed a set of four
videos and were asked to judge whether the videos shown were deepfakes or originals. The survey varied
the familiarity that the viewers had with the subjects of the videos. Also, the number of videos shown at
one time was manipulated. This survey showed that familiarity with subjects has a statistically significant
impact on how well people can dete