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Focus Tag: Deep Fakes
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…
Meme Warfare: AI countermeasures to disinformation should focus on popular, not perfect, fakes | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
by Michael Yankoski, Walter Scheirer, and Tim Weninger
May 13, 2021
Despite several alarming headlines in the press last year like “Deepfakes are coming for American Democracy” (Hwang and Watts 2020),…
From deepfakes to TikTok filters: How do you label AI content? | First Draft
by Tommy Shane, Emily Saltz, and Claire Leibowicz
May 13, 2021
When an astonishingly realistic deepfake of Tom Cruise spread across the internet in March, many people were quite rightly shocked.…
Facebook is watching for Chauvin trial for misinformation and hate speech | Poynter
by Tom Jones
April 20, 2021
Facebook announced Monday that it would limit posts that contain misinformation and hate speech as it relates to the trial…
I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline. | BuzzFeed News
by Pranav Dixit
April 13, 2021
I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai,…
Trust and Truth in the Age of Deep Fakes | ThinkND
March 29, 2021
The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next…