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 Front Psychol . 2025 May 23;16:1574840. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1574840 
 
 
 False failures, real distrust: the impact of an infrastructure failure deepfake on government trust

 
 Saifuddin Ahmed 
 Saifuddin Ahmed 

 
 1 Wee Kim Wee School for Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore 
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 1, * , Muhammad Masood 
 Muhammad Masood 

 
 1 Wee Kim Wee School for Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore 
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 1 , Adeline Wei Ting Bee 
 Adeline Wei Ting Bee 

 
 1 Wee Kim Wee School for Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore 
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 1 , Kei Ichikawa 
 Kei Ichikawa 

 
 2 Computational Social Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 
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 1 Wee Kim Wee School for Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore 
 
 2 Computational Social Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 
 
 Edited by: Marco Biella, University of Basel, Switzerland

 
 
 Reviewed by: Ruth Shillair, Michigan State University, United States

 Althea Frisanco, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

 
 
 ✉ *Correspondence: Saifuddin Ahmed sahmed@ntu.edu.sg 

 
 
 
 Received 2025 Feb 11; Accepted 2025 Apr 29; Collection date 2025.

 
 
 Copyright © 2025 Ahmed, Masood, Bee and Ichikawa. 
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