TikTok Struggles to Take Down Deepfake Videos of Hamas’ Victims

In a recent post on TikTok, a woman stands solemnly in front of armed soldiers in bulletproof vests.

“My body was exposed, almost lifeless, in the back of the truck by militants of Hamas,” the woman says in Spanish over melancholic flute music. “My name is Shani Louk. Sadness and uncertainty are now part of my reality. My identity and my dignity were taken from me at that moment.”

The woman shares what she says are her opinions about the attack, and references her mother’s calls for her safety. But it’s not Louk, the 22-year-old German-Israeli citizen, killed in Hamas’s siege on ...