The growing threat of political 'deepfakes'

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On the first day of 2020, a video of former Vice President Joe Biden circulated on Twitter. It appeared to show the presidential candidate agreeing with GOP proposals to cut Social Security benefits, a hot-button issue for Democratic primary voters.

Weeks after the video was posted by a Sanders campaign adviser, Biden publicly accused rival Bernie Sanders’s campaign of “pushing around a deceptively edited video.” PolitiFact concluded that the video clip was taken out of context to create a false impression — Biden was actually opposing cuts — but the footage was not faked or altered.

“PolitiFact looked at it and they doctored the photo, they doctored the piece and it’s acknowledged that it’s a fake,” Biden said Saturday about the video clip, excerpted from a speech at the Brookings Institution in April 2018.

“It’s simply a lie,” Biden said. “This is a doctored tape.”

The larger point, aside from the semantic difference between a misleading tape and a doctored one, is the growing risk of so-called “deepfakes” — photos or video created or undetectably altered by technology — to spread disinformation and influence elections.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-growing-threat-of-political-deepfakes/ar-BBZmDz9?li=BBnb7Kz

[empedocles]

1. The Maher attack video very adroitly made the 'deepfake' issue so clear.

[That video just has to circulate widely]

[Control-Z]

2. Can you link to it here?

Thanks!

[empedocles]

3. Sorry no. However, someone here on DU had linked it yesterday.

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4. Demovictory 9, also Initech [under site search, maher attack ad]

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5. Stay vigilant, people...