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Facebook has announced a new policy banning AI-manipulated “deepfake” videos that are likely to mislead viewers, but the policy explicitly covers only misinformation produced using AI, meaning “shallow fakes” – videos made using conventional editing tools – though frequently j
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US airlines have changed their websites to keep China happy, hours before a deadline for them to do so expired.
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While Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways and Australia’s Qantas have changed how they described Taiwan on their websites, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines have remained among the last few standing, calling the island a region or country.They could face measures such as ai
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The software, which is free and open to the public, scans social media in real time to detect evidence of automated Twitter accounts -- or "bots" -- pushing messages in a coordinated manner, an increasingly common practice to manipulate public opinion by creating the
|| Misinformation Ethical Hacking/Role of Designers || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The social media giant is putting $10 million into the “Deepfake Detection Challenge,” which aims to spur detection research. As part of the project, Facebook is commissioning researchers to produce realistic deepfakes to create a data set for testing detection tools.
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Outrage followed the (misleading) news that Google had removed label for Palestine from its map service – but borders are rarely as simple as cartographers might like.
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Predictions based on two university reports on media, politics, disinformation and their impact on the 2020 presidential election.
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As the major social platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have taken steps to ban users for spreading false, hateful, or violent messages, bad actors have turned to private spaces where their communications are harder to track.
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A discussion about the outlook of what misinformation might look like in the coming decade.