As one researcher showed on Twitter, there are sometime ways to spot fake, computer-generated faces.
Facebook and Twitter today took down hundreds of apparently bogus accounts linked to the Epoch Media Group—the Falun Gong-tied organization that supports Trump and opposes the Chinese government—and one particular detail about the coordinated campaign was especially eye-raising: Many of the bogus accounts featured profile pictures generated by artificial intelligence. In other words, the faces in the photos were fake.