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Swift action on deepfakes

In You Need to Calm Down, the 2019 hit Taylor Swift penned with New Zealand songwriter and producer Joel Little, she vented at the faceless hordes taking potshots at her online from behind their keyboards.

“Say it in the street, that’s a knock-out. But you say it in a Tweet, that’s a copout,” sang Swift, several years before her 2023 world tour became the biggest grossing in history, minting her as a billionaire in the process.

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