Headlines- 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.
- Propagandist journalists are seen as the true journalists by autocratic rulers and populist leaders worldwide, as they serve as the government's cheerleaders.
- Globally, populist and nationalist leaders passed draconian laws to punish journalists under the guise of "fake news" or "not in the national interest."
- 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 and news.
- Check Google Images for Authenticity. The 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.
- It is a horrible crime to post obscene, morphed images of women on social media networks, sometimes even in pornographic websites, as retaliation.
- If a fake message asks you to share something, you can quickly recognize it as fake messege.
- Always Check Independent Fact Checking Sites if You Have Some Doubts About the Authenticity of Any Information or Picture or video.
Tag: Coronavirus Pandemic
Pakistani Village Shaken By Country...
A village in northwestern Pakistan is under lockdown after a 50-year-old man became the first recorded coronavirus-related fatality in the country. Saadat Khan, who had an underlying heart condition, returned ill from a pilgrimage to Mecca. Coronavirus cases in Pakistan have soared to over 900 and there have now been seven recorded deaths
Covid-19: Fears of a Catastrophe in...
Particularly worrying is the situation of the overcrowded Congolese prisons, defined as “real places of daily death due to famine and lack of medical treatment. Prisoners survive only thanks to volunteers and food supplies from their families; given that, due to Covid-19, visits are no longer allowed in prisons, the NDSCI fears a massacre of prisoners in the very near future”
Zimbabwe’s Sports Betters Feeling...
Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate is at around 85 percent, say independent economists. Thirty-five year old Farai Chitengwa told VOA via WhatsApp that for the past last 10 years on a good month he gets between $700 and $800 from soccer betting. It is his only source of income
COVID-19 Effect: US Public Schools ...
This week, thousands of U.S. schools closed as officials sought to contain the new coronavirus. But the move presents new challenges for families who rely on the schools’ free meals and who don’t have the technology needed for their children to study at home
Ride-Sharing And Home Workouts: Kha...
After the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv closed its subway system due to the coronavirus, a service matching drivers with people who need a lift began to flourish — apparently contradicting social distancing measures. Elsewhere in the city, other innovative means of dealing with the new situation of living in lockdown were also emerging
Moscow Police Readying for Citywide...
All residents would need to obtain special permission to go outside. Baranov instructed officials to outline provisions for a reserve force — which would include new units of National Guard and Moscow volunteer guard officers — to enforce the curfew, RBC cited the document as saying
Several African Countries Confirm F...
A statement issued by the office of the prime minister said that “observing the global trend of the COVID-19 pandemic, and considering the experiences of other countries, there is a clear need to take additional steps to ensure that COVID-19 does not spread further in Rwanda.”
California, New York lockdown to pr...
Two of the most populous states in America are now shutting down all non-essential activities. Those announcements happened as the Trump administration works to overcome a slow response to the public health crisis and lawmakers race to reach a deal that will prop up the struggling US economy
10 New Coronavirus Cases Confirmed ...
The health minister cited that 220 suspected cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Kabul which two Members of the Lower House are among them.
Firuz stated that Herat province should go to a lockdown and urban buses should stop working in Kabul
Kyrgyzstan: Anxiety Creeping, But F...
The first three cases were reported on March 18. The men – who are aged 70, 62 and 46 – flew back to Kyrgyzstan on March 12 and were made to undergo a test before being allowed to self-isolate in their homes in the village of Blagoveschensk, in the Suzak district of Jala-Abad region