Cheapfake attacks—selectively edited video, misleading captions, out-of-context imagery—exploit narrative inconsistency rather than technical sophistication. The operational bottleneck is human-scale review; teams cannot manually scour every platform for subtle manipulations that erode trust. A custom automation workflow addresses this by implementing multi-agent reasoning to compare source material, analyze semantic drift, and flag anomalies. The business value is direct: reducing reputational damage, preempting smear campaigns, and lowering the labor cost of 24/7 media monitoring by routing only high-confidence alerts for human validation.




