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Your best defense against midterm misinformation: Stay off social media

Your best defense against midterm misinformation: Stay off social media

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https://www.cnet.com/news/your-best-defense-against-midterm-misinformation-stay-off-social-media/

So far, the answer seems to be: not far enough.  

And it may get worse before it gets better. Deep fakes, aka videos manipulated with machine learning to turn almost anybody into an audio-visual puppet, haven't surfaced meaningfully leading up to the US midterms, according to Hany Farid, a computer science professor at Dartmouth College. But accusations of deep fake videos have cropped up in elections in other parts of the world, most recently in Brazil, he said.

Your best defense against midterm misinformation: Stay off social media

Nov 4, 2018, 2:13pm UTC
https://www.cnet.com/news/your-best-defense-against-midterm-misinformation-stay-off-social-media/ > So far, the answer seems to be: not far enough.   > And it may get worse before it gets better. Deep fakes, aka videos manipulated with machine learning to turn almost anybody into an audio-visual puppet, haven't surfaced meaningfully leading up to the US midterms, according to Hany Farid, a computer science professor at Dartmouth College. But accusations of deep fake videos have cropped up in elections in other parts of the world, most recently in Brazil, he said.