Short answer
Start with reputable sources, then verify the specific claim.
No resource can prove every image, voice, text, or video is real or AI-generated. These links help you learn warning signs, understand scam patterns, and build better verification habits.
Use this page when you need a trusted next step for a family conversation, classroom lesson, senior-care plan, business payment procedure, or suspicious online claim.
Practical red flags
- A link, call, video, or message asks for immediate money, codes, secrecy, or sharing.
- The content has no original source, date, author, location, or official confirmation.
- A familiar person, celebrity, executive, or authority figure makes an unusual request.
- The source discourages you from checking another channel or asking a trusted person.
What to do next
- Choose the audience group that matches your situation.
- Use official agency and nonprofit resources before trusting social media advice.
- Save the most relevant links in a family, classroom, or small-business safety plan.
- Return to the Real or AI hub for plain-language guides and checklists.
Seniors and caregivers
Resources for older adults, caregivers, and families building safer verification habits.
- FTC: Scammers use AI to enhance their family emergency schemes FTC consumer alert on AI voice cloning in family emergency scams.
- FTC: Scammers Use Fake Emergencies To Steal Your Money FTC guidance on slowing down, checking the story, and avoiding urgent payment demands.
- FTC: Family Emergency Scams FTC scam topic page collecting family emergency scam guidance.
- AARP Fraud Watch Network Fraud alerts, scam prevention resources, and helpline information for older adults and families.
- AARP: How Fraud Fighters Stay Safe from Scams Plain scam-prevention habits from fraud and cybersecurity professionals.
- AARP: Grandparents Scam Meets AI AARP guidance on AI-enhanced grandparent scams and active pause habits.
- BBB: New tech creates fake calls and voicemails BBB scam alert on AI voice cloning, fake calls, and fake voicemails.
Parents and kids
Family-friendly AI literacy, privacy, school, and deepfake safety resources.
- Common Sense Media: Parents' Ultimate Guide to Generative AI Parent-friendly guide to how kids use generative AI and how families can discuss it.
- Common Sense Media: Deepfakes Can Be a Crime - Teaching AI Literacy Can Prevent It Youth-focused discussion of deepfake harms, consent, and AI literacy.
- News Literacy Project: Teaching About AI Free educator tools for AI literacy and critical thinking.
- News Literacy Project: Checkology Virtual Classroom News literacy lessons and resources for students and educators.
- Checkology: News Literacy Project learning platform Interactive news literacy platform for educators, students, and independent learners.
Teachers and students
Classroom-oriented AI literacy, news literacy, and verification resources.
- News Literacy Project: Teaching About AI Free educator tools for AI literacy and critical thinking.
- News Literacy Project: Checkology Virtual Classroom News literacy lessons and resources for students and educators.
- Checkology: News Literacy Project learning platform Interactive news literacy platform for educators, students, and independent learners.
- CISA: Tactics of Disinformation CISA resource explaining tactics such as synthetic media, impersonation, and manipulated context.
Small businesses
Resources for payment verification, executive impersonation, fake voice messages, and deepfake risk.
- BBB: New tech creates fake calls and voicemails BBB scam alert on AI voice cloning, fake calls, and fake voicemails.
- BBB: How to spot a deepfake and avoid scams BBB tips for deepfake audio, video, celebrity scams, and business payment scams.
- FCC: Deep-fake audio and video make robocalls and scam texts harder to spot FCC consumer guidance on AI-generated audio, video links, robocalls, and scam texts.
- CISA: NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats Joint government guidance for organizations preparing for and responding to deepfake threats.
- NSA/FBI/CISA: Contextualizing Deepfake Threats to Organizations NSA release for the joint deepfake cybersecurity information sheet.
- NIST: Reducing Risks Posed by Synthetic Content NIST overview of transparency, provenance, watermarking, detection, and synthetic content risk reduction.
General public
Broad public resources for scams, synthetic media, disinformation, and everyday verification habits.
- FTC: Scammers Use Fake Emergencies To Steal Your Money FTC guidance on slowing down, checking the story, and avoiding urgent payment demands.
- FCC: Deep-fake audio and video make robocalls and scam texts harder to spot FCC consumer guidance on AI-generated audio, video links, robocalls, and scam texts.
- CISA: Tactics of Disinformation CISA resource explaining tactics such as synthetic media, impersonation, and manipulated context.
- BBB: How to spot a deepfake and avoid scams BBB tips for deepfake audio, video, celebrity scams, and business payment scams.
- NIST: Reducing Risks Posed by Synthetic Content NIST overview of transparency, provenance, watermarking, detection, and synthetic content risk reduction.
Technical and standards references
More technical references for organizations, standards, provenance, and synthetic media risk.
- NIST: Reducing Risks Posed by Synthetic Content NIST overview of transparency, provenance, watermarking, detection, and synthetic content risk reduction.
- CISA: NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats Joint government guidance for organizations preparing for and responding to deepfake threats.
- NSA/FBI/CISA: Contextualizing Deepfake Threats to Organizations NSA release for the joint deepfake cybersecurity information sheet.
- CISA: Tactics of Disinformation CISA resource explaining tactics such as synthetic media, impersonation, and manipulated context.
- FCC: Deep-fake audio and video make robocalls and scam texts harder to spot FCC consumer guidance on AI-generated audio, video links, robocalls, and scam texts.