Challenges and Dimensions of Disinformation in LAC: Deepfakes and the Urgency to Protect Women's Rights

The present work is an analysis that addresses the challenges and dimensions of misinformation, focusing on the proliferation of deepfakes and their disproportionate impact on women. From the emergence of fake news to the emergence of deepfake technologies, a transformation in social interaction with information stands out.

The accelerated spread of disinformation, manifested in forms such as deepfakes, presents significant risks to individual perception and democratic participation. Deepfakes, videos manipulated using artificial intelligence, represent a more advanced and challenging phenomenon than fake news by hyper-realistically recreating non-existent situations.

It examines how these technologies, initially developed for creative purposes have become digital weapons aimed primarily at women. Gender-based cyber violence, manifested in pornographic deepfakes and online harassment, compromises the privacy, reputation, and mental health of women, undermining gender equality in the digital environment. The absence of specific regulatory frameworks and the insufficiency of reliable detection methods pose ethical and human rights challenges.

This paper highlights the urgency of adopting gender approaches in cybersecurity policies, promoting information literacy and critical thinking, and closing the gender gap in access to and use of digital technologies.

The conclusion highlights the imperative need to protect women's rights online through continued research, targeted regulatory frameworks, and effective strategies to prevent digital violence.