Bangladesh, July 23 -- Democracy depends on one simple but powerful idea: citizens should make political decisions based on truthful information.

Elections, public debates, and accountability become meaningful only when people can distinguish facts from falsehood.

Today, however, artificial intelligence has introduced a new challenge to democratic societies. Deepfakes - AI-generated videos, images, and audio recordings that closely imitate real people-are making it increasingly difficult to separate reality from fabrication.

The question is no longer whether deepfakes will influence democracy, but how democracies can survive in an age where seeing is no longer believing.

Deepfakes have evolved rapidly during the last few years. Advan...