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  "license": {
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Reality Defender: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/reality-defender/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/reality-defender/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/reality-defender.md",
  "title": "Reality Defender: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Reality Defender is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 26, 2025.",
  "period": "July 31 to Sept. 26, 2025",
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    "summary": "General deepfake detection vendor (audio, video, image) with a hiring use case among several. Its hiring page pitches \"Protect hiring decisions + employee access from deepfake impersonation\" for recruiting, HR and security teams. RealMeeting scans live interviews for manipulated faces and cloned voices and returns verdicts with confidence scores; RealAPI and RealScan check submitted files. The vendor says media analysis does not establish identity, so it is not an ID check or background check.",
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    "text": "General deepfake detection vendor (audio, video, image) with a hiring use case among several. Its hiring page pitches \"Protect hiring decisions + employee access from deepfake impersonation\" for recruiting, HR and security teams. RealMeeting scans live interviews for manipulated faces and cloned voices and returns verdicts with confidence scores; RealAPI and RealScan check submitted files. The vendor says media analysis does not establish identity, so it is not an ID check or background check.",
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      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/reality-defender/#event-1",
      "on": "2025-09-26",
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      "title": "Reality Defender demos catching a deepfake job candidate on Zoom",
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      "title": "Reality Defender opens free deepfake detection API",
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