Letter.

Letter Published in The National UAE on 5Aug 18  Fake news and technological advances could be dangerous

I write in reference to Rashmee Roshan Lall’s article Deepfake technology could create huge potential for social unrest and even trigger wars (August 1): your writer’s opinion piece was meaningful and very accurate.

Today we have reached an extremely dangerous point where more and more technology is being developed with increasing sophistication and as a result, news which is fake or has been manufactured is spreading even further and being passed off as real news.

Ms Roshan Lall is right to point out that this combination could bring about social unrest and even casualties in developed societies.

Much of the blame lies with us for providing plenty of information for hackers to exploit.

This was a well-written and very informative article.

K Ragavan, Denver