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Deepfake is a technology that creates fake images and videos with replaced or synthesized faces. Deepfakes are becoming a concerning social phenomenon, as they can be maliciously used to generate false political news, disseminate dangerous information, falsify electronic evidence, and commit digital harassment and fraud. The ease and accuracy of creating Deepfakes have been bolstered by the popularity of wearing face masks since the beginning of the infectious disease outbreak (2020). Because these masks obstruct defining facial features, fake videos are now even more challenging to identify, increasing the necessity for advanced Deepfake detection technology. The research also creates a real/fake video dataset with face masks because the field lacks the dataset required for detection-model training. The proposed research proposes a Deepfake Face Mask Dataset (DFFMD) based on a novel Inception-ResNet-v2 with preprocessing stages, feature-based, residual connection, and batch normalization. The combination of preprocessing stages, feature-based, residual connection, and batch normalization increases the detection accuracy of deepfake videos in the presence of facemasks, unlike the traditional methods. The study’s results compared with existing state-of-the-art methods detect face-mask-Deepfakes with 99.81% accuracy compared to the traditional InceptionResNetV2 and VGG19, whose accuracy is 77.48%, and 99.25%, respectively. Future work should evaluate the accuracy of developing a subsequent experimental work for increased detection of deepfake with facemasks.