How deepfake technology impacts public trust in fiscal policies?
- Title
- How deepfake technology impacts public trust in fiscal policies?
- Creator
- Dixit, Pragti; Varghese, Nikhil
- Description
- The proliferation of Deepfake technology, with its unparalleled ability to fabricate hyper-realistic audiovisual content, poses a profound and multifaceted threat to the integrity of public discourse and the perceived veracity of governmental communications, particularly in the domain of fiscal policy, as it engenders a pernicious erosion of trust, fuels scepticism regarding the authenticity of official statements, and amplifies the vulnerability of the populace to disinformation campaigns, thus undermining the foundational tenets of democratic governance, exacerbating the opacity of fiscal decision-making processes, and destabilizing the delicate equilibrium between transparency, accountability, and citizen confidence in state-managed economic stewardship. Keeping this in mind, the present study endeavours to assess the impact of deepfake technology on public trust in economic policies by taking a sample of 134 respondents from the Mumbai region of India. The results indicate a significant negative relationship between exposure to Deepfake technology and public trust in fiscal policies implying that Deepfake technology leads to an erosion of public trust in fiscal policies of the government calling out for appropriate steps that must be taken to counteract the derogatory effects of Deepfake technology. 2025 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
- Source
- Deepfake Technology Dilemmas: Mastering Managerial Navigation;pp.63-76
- Date
- 01-01-2025
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc.
- Subject
- Deepfake technology; Fiscal policies; Public trust
- Coverage
- Dixit P., University School of Business, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, India; Varghese N., School of Business and Management, Christ University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
- Relation
- ISBN: 979-889530564-5; 979-889530549-2;
- Format
- online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Dixit, Pragti; Varghese, Nikhil, “How deepfake technology impacts public trust in fiscal policies?,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed June 18, 2026, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/25273.