Finland tries to protect children against deepfakes

Prof Aspegren teaching students about the distribution of employment in a class at the Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Media Arts in Finland. — Meeri Koutaniemi/The New York Times

FINLAND is preparing for uncertain times ahead. To the east, it is boosting defences along its 1,340km border with Russia, the longest in the Nato alliance. In the north, its soldiers are teaching other Western troops to fight in Arctic conditions.

And in its schools, young Finns are learning to defend another front line: reality itself.