Headlines- False or misleading informations are spread by organizations posing as legitimate media outlets in an attempt to twist public opinion in favor of a certain ideology.
- On social media,watch out for fake messages,pictures,Videos and news.
- Always Check Independent Fact Checking Sites if You Have Some Doubts About the Authenticity of Any Information or Picture or video.
- Check Google Images for AuthThe Google Reverse Images search can helps you.
- It Would Be Better to Ignore Social Media Messages that are forwarded from Unknown or Little-Known Sources.
- If a fake message asks you to share something, you can quickly recognize it as fake messege.
- It is a heinous crime and punishable offence to post obscene, morphed images of women on social media networks, sometimes even in pornographic websites, as retaliation.
- Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI)-driven deep learning software to manipulate preexisting photographs, videos, or audio recordings of a person to create new, fake images, videos, and audio recordings.
- AI technology has the ability to manipulate media and swap out a genuine person's voice and likeness for similar counter parts.
- Deepfake creators use this fake substance to spread misinformation and other illegal activities.Deepfakes are frequently used on social networking sites to elicit heated responses or defame opponents.
- One can identify AI created fake videos by identifying abnormal eye movement, Unnatural facial expressions, a lack of feeling, awkward-looking hand,body or posture,unnatural physical movement or form, unnatural coloring, Unreal-looking hair,teeth that don't appear natural, Blurring, inconsistent audio or noise, images that appear unnatural when slowed down, differences between hashtags blockchain-based digital fingerprints, reverse image searches.
- Look for details,like stange background,orientation of teeth,handsclothing,asymmetrical facial features,use reverse image search tools.
Year: 2020
Officials Had “Incentive” to Lie about...
A top Pentagon watchdog has told U.S. lawmakers there was an “incentive” for U.S. officials and military commanders to lie about the progress of the Afghanistan war. John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), testified before House lawmakers on Wednesday. His appearance comes one month after a bombshell report by The Washington Post claiming that officials misled the public about the Afghanistan war from the beginning
Three Die as Illegal Mine Walls...
Three people have been reported dead in a space of four days after illegal mines collapsed on them in Malawi’s lakeshore district of Mangochi, killing them while mining precious stones known as corundum and gold, police confirmed Wednesday, Jan 15
Tibetan Villagers Jailed in Sog County...
While anti-gang campaigns are being carried out across Tibetan regions of China, these are often used as an excuse to suppress environmental activists or ordinary Tibetans promoting use of the Tibetan language or combating corruption in local government, sources told RFA in earlier reports
Sculpture Decorated with Croatian Cravat at...
A special decorating ceremony took place at UN Headquarters on 15 January 2020 and the “Peace Monument” sculpture was decorated with the Croatian cravat. The event symbolically marks the beginning of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and was organized by the Permanent Mission of Croatia to the United Nations
The Year of Rage: Human Rights...
2019 was a year of mass protests on the African continent, with demonstrators filling the streets in capitals like Conakry, Harare, Khartoum and Kinshasa. While the causes of their grievances varied, the protesters shared one unfortunate characteristic: a harsh response from security forces
Tanzania Threatens to Block Unregistered SIM...
To curb cyber crime, Tanzanian Authority set a dead line of 20 January to register mobile phone. After that mobile SIM card will be blocked
News Malawi
The Malawi Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has disclosed that it is investigating high profile people in the country for attempting to bribe Judges that are presiding over the election case in the southern African Country
Sting Operation: Provocation to Commit Crime
Though this guidelines are adopted by an American organisation keeping in mind the American perspective and legal system, but I think that Investigative Reporters of other countries who use hidden cameras-spy cams regularly should follow these guidelines
Social Enterprise Project Connects African Asylum...
The 37,000 African asylum seekers in Israel live in limbo. They are allowed to work and their children go to Israeli schools, but they have no official status and live on the fringes of Israeli society. Now a new social enterprise project aims to help them share their stories and culinary culture with native Israelis. …
Regulation, Transparency and Scrutiny Key to...
Since 2017, leaders from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have accelerated a decade-long expansion in the regime’s ability to shape narratives about China around the world, Washington-based Freedom House said in its report “Beijing’s Global Megaphone,” with the use of what it called “new and more brazen tactics” by Chinese diplomats, state-owned news outlets, and CCP proxies