In 2023, a deepfake audio clip of a school principal making racist remarks went viral, sparking community outrage and threatening his career. It was entirely fabricated, created by a disgruntled staff member using a free AI voice-cloning tool and just a few minutes of the principal's recorded speech from a school assembly. By the time forensic analysis confirmed it was fake, the damage was done. The principal had received death threats and the school had been vandalized. This is the new reality: creating convincing fake audio, video, and images no longer requires expertise or expensive equipment. A teenager with a laptop can produce synthetic media that fools most people. When seeing and hearing are no longer believing, how do we decide what is real?