Jan. 30, Jared Schroeder, assistant professor of journalism at SMU Dallas specializing in Free Speech/First Amendment topics, for a piece advocating that social media platforms and their users redouble efforts to thwart and halt deepfake videos. Published in The Hill: http://bit.ly/2RDtd60
A quality deepfake video clip, released at the right time, could almost certainly swing an election result.
The technology needed to create these deceptive video clips — which convey people saying or doing things they never said or did — has peaked just as primary voters and caucus-goers register the first results of the 2020 presidential election in the coming days and weeks.
It’s obvious something should be done to safeguard our election process from such powerful disinformation, especially during a time when our social media communities are awash in intentionally false and misleading political information. . .
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