Deepfakes highlight the growing challenge of combating misinformation this election season
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“You’re just waiting for that kind of bomb to explode,” Kessler told POLITICO. “So, we’re trying to get ahead of these things.” Complicating matters, major tech companies haven’t adopted consistent standards for dealing with such false material. “Thinking ahead to 2020 and beyond, one does not need any great imagination to envision even more nightmarish scenarios that would leave the government, the media, and the public struggling to discern what is real and what is fake,"Hany Farid, a University of California, Berkeley professor and digital forensics expert, demonstrated software last weekthat he’s creating to detect altered videos and which he said could eventually be used by the news media.
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