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: Press Freedom
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On the eve of the presidential election, that the ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), and the outgoing president, Andrzej Duda, want to maintain at all costs this Sunday, May 10 despite the pandemic, attacks on the media independent intensify
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Press freedom in Albania was already in decline, before two consecutive crises — a deadly earthquake in November 2019 and now the COVID-19 pandemic — further eroded journalism rights in the country. Reporters Without Borders ranked Albania 84 out of 180 countries in its 2020 World Press Freedom Index, down two places from the year before
VOA Director Applauds Journalists f...
VOA Director Amanda Bennet urged journalists around the world to remain diligent in reporting the truth about the coronavirus, particularly in countries with constricted media space. Bennett issued the message to commemorate the 27th World Press Freedom Day, themed: Journalism without Fear or Favor
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Somali journalists accuse the government of cracking down on press freedom, with beatings, detentions, and threats of prosecution. Mohamed Sheikh Nor takes a look at what it’s like to be a reporter in Somalia
China Jails Journalist For 15 Years...
Guiyang County People’s Court sentenced journalist Chen Jieren to 15 years’ imprisonment on April 30 after finding him guilty of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble,” “extortion and blackmail,” “illegal business activity,” and “bribery.”
Benin Journalist Ignace Sossou̵...
Ignace Sossou , investigative journalist for the information site Bénin Web TV, will appear before the Cotonou Court of Appeal tomorrow April 28, 2020. Convicted for “harassment by electronic means” in December 2019, he is detained in a prison in the Beninese capital for more than four months. Pursued for having relayed on social networks the words of a prosecutor held during a workshop on disinformation, he nevertheless committed no fault. In a video confronting the magistrate’s statements and the journalist’s tweets, RSF had managed to prove his total innocence and to show that he had taken verbatim the words of the prosecutor, whom he considered, as a journalist, to be ‘They were of public interest