Marlene Lufen (b. 1984) earned her Ph.D. in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Cologne, where her dissertation “Visuelle Täuschung: Der Aufstieg von Deepfakes im deutschsprachigen Raum” (Visual Deception: The Rise of Deepfakes in the German‑Speaking Area) broke new ground. Since 2015 she has worked as a senior reporter for , heading the “Bilder‑Verifikation” (Image‑Verification) desk. Lufen’s most‑cited pieces include:
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Through these works Lufen has become a public intellectual, regularly appearing on talk shows, consulting for the European Union’s disinformation task‑force, and authoring the open‑source tool , which automates the detection of common manipulation artefacts. Marlene Lufen (b
She chose a modest but picturesque town in Italy—Matera, famous for its ancient cave dwellings. She found a public domain photo of the Sassi di Matera taken in the 1960s, then paired it with a recent high‑resolution image of the same view (taken by a different photographer and posted on a travel forum). She cropped, blended, and added a subtle vignette so the two images matched in tone. Since 2015 she has worked as a senior