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Focus Tag: Deep Fakes
This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations | Rest of World
by Nilesh Christopher
October 22, 2021
Umang Agarwal is a Hrithik Roshan superfan. For the past five years, he’s run a YouTube channel dedicated to the…
Fake news in Veles, North Macedonia | The Washington Post
by Kenneth Dickerman
October 18, 2021
Photographer Jonas Bendiksen’s newest book, ”The Book of Veles” (Gost, 2021), raises some really tough questions. At its most basic…
It’s not too late to regulate deepfakes | Coda Story
by Martina Biino
October 11, 2021
From an app that allows users to swap images of women and men into pornographic videos to the use of…
These Deepfake Voices Can Help Trans Gamers | WIRED
by Tom Simonite
September 21, 2021
Fred, a trans man, clicked his mouse, and his tenorful tones suddenly sank deeper. He’d switched on voice-changing algorithms that…
Three Iraqi women explain how and why they stay anonymous online | Rest of World
by Sofia Barbarani
June 20, 2021
Ever since social media was introduced in Iraq, women here have turned to online anonymity in order to voice their…
Facebook develops new method to reverse-engineer deepfakes and track their source | The Verge
by James Vincent
June 18, 2021
Deepfakes aren’t a big problem on Facebook right now, but the company continues to fund research into the technology to…
The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn | The Walrus
by Maggie McDonald
June 14, 2021
Over the past three years, celebrities have been appearing across social media in improbable scenarios. You may have recently caught…
Deepfake maps could really mess with your sense of the world | Ars Technica
by Will Knight
June 1, 2021
Satellite images showing the expansion of large detention camps in Xinjiang, China, between 2016 and 2018 provided some of the…
Deepfakes, Disinformation, and Democracy | ITIF
May 26, 2021
The media has long played an important role in a healthy democracy, providing citizens with access to accurate news and…