How A Fake Narrative Becomes A Real Reputation Crisis

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A fake narrative can now crater a company's reputation even without a real underlying scandal, thanks to AI-generated content and deepfakes that spread faster than corrections. Traditional crisis management playbooks assume damage stems from actual missteps, a defective product, an offensive ad campaign, but generative AI has upended that equation. The piece argues that brands must now defend against entirely fabricated stories that feel plausible enough to gain traction before fact-checkers catch up, fundamentally changing how companies need to think about reputation risk and response speed.