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Deepfakes in Education: Cyberbullying in the Age of AI

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June 12, 2026 · 7:23 PM

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Technology in the Classroom: Tech Devices Enhancing Education

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Technology in the Classroom: Tech Devices Enhancing Education

In a K–12 setting, deepfakes hold a lot of power. These falsified images or videos, virtually impossible to identify with an untrained eye, can be wielded to harm educators’ reputations, cyberbully vulnerable students, and blackmail individuals and schools. With artificial intelligence image generation, the problem is growing rapidly. Super-realistic images can be created quickly and deployed easily, creating a concerning scalability. Faced with the malicious use of AI-generated images — both of