Authenticating What You Cannot Trust: Synthetic Media and Deepfake Evidence in I

By the end of the webinar, participants should be able to:

• Distinguish authentication from relevance, hearsay, best-evidence, and expert-reliability questions.
• Select a supportable federal or New York authentication route for common digital-media exhibits.
• Use the 2026 New York Court of Appeals decision in Matter of M.S. to recognize foundation and chain-of-custody weaknesses in video evidence.
• Preserve source, capture, metadata, integrity, and transformation information before those facts disappear.
• Explain what a cryptographic hash can establish and what it cannot.
• Use detector output as a technical input without presenting probability as a legal conclusion
• State the current status of proposed Rule 707 and the Rule 901(c) working draft without treating either as law.
• Build a concise foundation or challenge record for a disputed digital exhibit.

Speakers:

• Alexander Paykin, Esq. | Managing Director, Paykin Law | Chair, NYSBA Committee on Technology and the Legal Profession
• Pouya Shafabakhsh | AIGP, CAIC, Principal Judicial Forensic AI Auditor | Co-Founder and Chief AI Governance Officer, Radsam Academy of AI Sovereign Governance