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.
Tag: Reporters Without Borders
Arrest of a Former Syrian Jihadist...
A former spokesman for the Syrian jihadist organization Jaysh al-Islam, Islam Alloush, was indicted on Friday in Marseille. He is suspected of “ war crimes ”, “ acts of torture and complicity ” and “ complicity in enforced disappearances “
Burundi: Four Iwacu Journalists Sentenced to...
On December 30, the public prosecutor requested 15 years in prison against the journalists. The trial had however largely established that the reporters, arrested on October 22, 2019 while trying to cover the attack on a group of rebels, had no connection with the assailants
DRC: Community Radio Station Burnt Down...
Covering the epidemic can be very risky. Health measures sometimes arouse very strong hostility from part of the population and from the armed groups raging in eastern DRC. On November 2, Papy Mahamba Mumbere, a journalist for Lwemba community radio , was murdered a few hours after hosting a program on the response to Ebola
Comoros: Two Journalists Arrested and Placed...
The police had already arrested several of the rally organizers that morning and blocked the place where it was to take place, preventing the event from taking place. The first round of legislative elections, scheduled for Sunday January 19, is boycotted by the opposition
Pakistani Reporter Nasrullah Chaudhry Sentenced to...
The anti-terrorist court in Karachi (southern Pakistan), sentenced journalist Nasrullah Chaudhry to December 5, 2019 to five years’ imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 rupees (125 euros). Editor of the daily newspaper in Urdu language Nai Baat , he was arrested on November 11, 2018 for “possession of documents inciting religious hatred and jihad”
In Malta, Political Resignations are not...
One of the suspects, Melvin Theuma, has received a presidential pardon in exchange for information and is expected to testify before a magistrate on 29 November. Three henchmen, Alfred Degiorgio, George Degiorgio, and Vincent Muscat, also remain in detention following their arrest on 4 December 2017, without having been tried yet
RSF Calls for Release of Chinese...
Huang was arrested on October 17 in his home province of Guangdong on charges of “stirring up quarrels and causing unrest” , a vague motive often used by the regime against journalists that can be worth up to ten years. from prison
RSF Marks the Second Anniversary of...
RSF returned to Malta on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia on October 16, 2019. RSF Secretary General Christophe Deloire and RSF’s United Kingdom Office Director Rebecca Vincent are in the country to renew calls for justice and stress the need for concrete action in the face of the general deterioration of the climate of freedom of the press in Malta
Egypt: Wave of Arrests of Journalists...
Three journalists have already appeared and are now in pretrial detention: Nasser Abdel Hafiz , of Akhbar El-Yom newspaper , Sayed Abdellah , who covered the mobilizations in Suez, including Al Jazeera , and published real-time information on his Facebook account ( today disabled), and Khaled Dawoud ( Al-Ahram ). The first was arrested on September 20 while he was in Tahrir Square
The Independence of the Bulgarian Public...
Known for her uncompromising interviews and pressing questions at the microphone of the Bulgarian national radio BNR where she has been employed for 26 years, the journalist Silvia Velikova was withdrawn the presentation of her show the next morning and without notice on 12 September latest