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Using the F-word: Fascist drift in America | University of Virginia Democracy Initiative
January 12, 2021
Trump supporters’ storming of the Capitol, as Trump refused to concede his loss in the 2020 presidential election, underscored the…
West Papua: New Online Influence Operation Attempts to Sway Independence Debate | Bellingcat
by Benjamin Strick
November 13, 2020
A new online influence operation that seeks to counter West Papua’s independence movement appears to have emerged on prominent social…
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge | NBC
by Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny
October 30, 2020
One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake "intelligence" document about him went viral…
Butterfly Attack: Operation Blaxit | Media Manipulation Casebook
by Brandi Collins-Dexter
October 23, 2020
Over the course of 3 years, a mix of pranksters and extremists (right wing) launched a butterfly attack campaign as…
The Subtle Effects of Blood Circulation Can Be Used to Detect Deep Fakes | IEEE Spectrum
by David Schneider
October 2, 2020
...recent research promises to give the upper hand to the fake-detecting cats, at least for the time being. This work,…
Deepfakes are coming for American democracy. Here’s how we can prepare. | The Washington Post
by Tim Hwang and Clint Watts
September 11, 2020
Manipulated videos are rapidly becoming a fixture of the 2020 election. On Aug. 30, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)…
Deepfakes: A new disinformation threat? | Democracy Reporting International
by Madeline Brady
September 2, 2020
Highly realistic manipulated videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI), so-called deepfakes, are just around the corner. Concerns are rising that…
The Beirut Explosion – Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? Is It A Faked Video Of A Missile? | Bellingcat
by Nick Waters
August 7, 2020
In the days after every catastrophe, it is inevitable that rumours and misinformation will be passed around on social networks…
The owner of WeChat thinks deepfakes could actually be good | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
July 29, 2020
In a new white paper about its plans for AI, translated by China scholars Jeffrey Ding and Caroline Meinhardt, Tencent,…