2020 Campaigns Throw Their Hands Up on Disinformation
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Few politicians have teams to spot false statements about them online, or to fight back before it spreads.
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Facebook bans 'deepfake' videos in run-up to US election
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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
Internet Companies Prepare to Fight the ‘Deepfake’ Future
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Researchers are creating tools to find A.I.-generated fake videos before they become impossible to detect. Some experts fear it is a losing battle.
US airlines give in to China's demands over Taiwan
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US airlines have changed their websites to keep China happy, hours before a deadline for them to do so expired.
Beijing’s demand to refer to ‘China Taiwan’ still being defied by US airlines
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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
Facebook, Microsoft launch contest to detect deepfake videos
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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.
Disputed territories: where Google Maps draws the line
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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.
Get ready for more humanlike bots, better deep-fake videos and wall-to-wall disinformation in 2020 race
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Predictions based on two university reports on media, politics, disinformation and their impact on the 2020 presidential election.
The El Paso And Dayton Shootings Show How Disinformation Spreads On Messaging Apps
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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.
The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
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A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary sits beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington.