Deepfake 'news anchors' are appearing in pro-China footage on social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, a research group says. Graphika said it discovered the deepfakes on social media while tracking pro-China disinformation operations known as 'spamouflage.' Jack Stubbs, vice president of intelligence at Graphika, said: "This is the first time we've seen a state-aligned operation use AI-generated video footage of a fictitious person to create deceptive political content." In one video analysed by Graphika, a fictitious male anchor who calls himself Alex criticizes U.S. inaction over gun violence. Graphika's report said the two news anchors were almost certainly created using technology provided by the London-based AI start-up Synthesia. Synthesia’s website advertises software for creating deepfake avatars "based on video footage of real actors."

Damien Kieran, who resigned as Twitter's chief privacy officer in November, has joined Paris-based photo sharing app-maker BeReal as general counsel. "The product, the people, and the potential lured me in," he wrote on LinkedIn. BeReal strives for an authentic experience by giving platform users one random two-minute window daily in which to post an unfiltered photograph. Kieran resigned along with other senior Twitter executives two weeks after Elon Musk completed his $44bn acquisition of the platform and became CEO.

Writing on LinkedIn, Raleigh N.C.,-based HR consultant Laurie Reuttimann is skeptical about a car-focussed report on NPR which says that commuting has an upside and remote workers may be missing out on creating mindful routines and liminal spaces. Laurie writes that the report was “underwritten by commercial real estate firms that want to increase occupancy rates . . . . The #returntooffice propaganda is real. Please don't use your car — the place where you should be hypervigilant and on the lookout for accidents — as the space to decompress from work.” She notes that 76% of Americans drive to work and traffic fatalities reached a 16-year high in 2021.

CNN reports on doxxing – which it describes as “a form of online invasion of personal privacy that can lead to devastating consequences” – and what to do if you are doxxed. Anyone can be doxxed, but experts believe women are more likely to be targets of mass online attacks and leaks of sensitive media. CNN takes a look at some preventative steps to protect yourself online, including resources from the University of Berkeley and PEN America.

Brendan Vaudequin is getting a lot of attention on LinkedIn with his post about the value of post-lunch napping. Brendan writes: “I had first hand experience [of napping when] working in Vietnam. We would have a 30 min nap after our lunch. Made a world of a difference around productivity & having more energy / patience for when you would return home to your family.” He helpfully supplies a photograph, which has been liked more than 200k times: