India, Dec. 28 -- This week, the government issued a reminder to social media companies and media-sharing web services such as YouTube that they need to ensure that deepfakes are not displayed to users in India. The communication was the second one within a month, and it sought an action taken report. The electronics and IT ministry has tightened its focus on the issue since PM Narendra Modi tweeted in November about what he thought was a deepfake video of him participating in a traditional Gujarati dance (that video, however, featured a lookalike). A more serious example was from earlier in November when a deepfake video of an actor went viral, illustrating how easy it is to create convincing visuals of a person doing something they did ...