Impostor poses as Ukraine's Prime Minister in video call with UK defense secretary
UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace suspects Russia was involved in the call.
deepfakes
A Telegram bot network is being used to create deepfake nudes
It has produced naked images of at least 104,000 women.
Adobe Photoshop can now identify 'shopped images
The Content Authenticity Initiative tool can flag deepfakes and credit creators.We have two newsletters, why not sign up for both?
Microsoft will identify manipulated media with a confidence score
It will tell you how likely it is that the content you’re watching is fake.
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Reuters joins Facebook's fact-checking program
The news agency has created a dedicated four-person team to verify posts on Facebook.
TikTok-owner ByteDance reportedly built a deepfake maker
It asks users to scan their face and then transfers their image to videos.
Facebook helped Reuters create an online course on identifying deepfakes
The social media giant is spending ‘six figures’ to make the course available globally.
Twitter reveals how it plans to address deepfakes
It wants you to weigh in on draft guidelines for handling 'synthetic and manipulated media.'
Twitter vows to introduce new rules against deepfakes
It will give users the chance to submit their feedback.
These deepfake celebrity impressions are equally amazing and alarming
An actor used deepfake tech to convincingly mimic 20 celebrities.
Google fights deepfakes by releasing 3,000 deepfakes
Researchers can use the database to make automated detection tools better at spotting doctored videos.
Facebook teams up with Microsoft and MIT to fight deepfakes
The company is creating a data set researchers can use to build better detection tools.
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A new tool detects deepfakes with 96 percent accuracy
It focuses on subtle head movements to identify manipulated videos.
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Facebook is fact checking the 'drunk Nancy Pelosi' video, but won't remove it
The company isn't removing the edited and misleading clip.
Google explains how it's fighting fake news
A new white paper brings all of its efforts together.
Scarlett Johansson says fighting deepfake porn is 'fruitless'
She's just one of the higher profile victims of a new form of harassment with little legal recourse.
