Identifying doctored videos is essential. But assuming everything is faked allows autocrats to cast doubt on real videos of their violence.

Fake news is about to get a whole lot fakier.. “Deep Fakes: Fake Video and Audio Indistinguishable From Reality Are Here, and Here to Stay” is published by Jeff Valdivia in The Startup.

"In his work (most notably, his documentaries), Herzog seeks this “ecstatic truth”: to reflect reality not how it is on the surface, but how it is on a deep level, beyond the façade of what we merely perceive. [...] This what bothers me _...Read More_

"An altered video of CEO Mark Zuckerberg has surfaced on the social-media company’s Instagram app, where he appears to question his company’s data practices."