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Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s baptism; plus ‘deepfake’ cheerleaders: the woman wrongly accused over a viral video

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Marina Hyde on Russell Brand’s journey to Christianity, and Jenny Kleeman meets the woman accused of circulating a damaging ‘deepfake’ video. The problem? Nothing was fake after all.

Marina Hyde: ‘So Russell Brand was baptised in the Thames, and all his sins were washed away. Cheaper than a lawyer, I suppose’; plus Jenny Kleeman meets Raffaella Spone, the woman accused of creating and circulating a damaging ‘deepfake’ video of teenage cheerleaders. The problem? Nothing was fake after all.