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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Main Authors: Cristian Vaccari, Andrew Chadwick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-02-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120903408