Deepfakes and Disinformation: Exploring the Impact of Synthetic Political Video on Deception, Uncertainty, and Trust in News
Artificial Intelligence (AI) now enables the mass creation of what have become known as “deepfakes”: synthetic videos that closely resemble real videos. Integrating theories about the power of visual communication and the role played by uncertainty in undermining trust in public discourse, we explai...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-02-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120903408 |