Photographs and video images manipulated by off-the-shelf or rudimentary editing apps are called “cheap fakes.” Editing apps can remove or modify objects in an image, make it seem the photo or video was captured somewhere other than where it occurred, allow for a “rebroadcast,” which is taking a picture of an existing picture, and change any or all of the metadata included in digital images such as the time, date, camera model, etc. Verifying the authenticity of digital photos and videos, already a societal problem in several democracies, is about to get worse in the U.S. where an e...