My personal experience with fake news has been from a YouTube video on celebrities and the drama that surrounds them, when they don’t have any proof or good sources to say the information is true.
I think the news from the video I just copied onto this blog id just fake news, they have a idea of what’s going on and what’s the truth but no sources or reliable evidence to support there claims in anyway, just assumptions.
What is the pizza gate conspiracy? The malicious spread of fake news online had very real consequences on Sunday, when a 28-year-old North Carolina man—inspired by an outrageous conspiracy theory known as “Pizza gate”—walked into a popular Washington, D.C. pizzeria and fired several shots from an AR-15. Thankfully, no one was hurt and the man was taken into custody about 45 minutes later, but the incident underscores the very real threat of fake news.
There’s no denying the role that social media companies have in controlling the spread of fake news on their platforms. But we, social media users, also have a role to play. For example, by learning to verify information that we read on social media platforms. Personal responsibility can be the first step to protecting the fabric of our societies.
I didn’t know anything about deep fake before this module at all or in anyway, n which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else’s likeness. While the act of faking content is a not new, deepfakes leverage powerful techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence to manipulate or generate visual and audio content with a high potential to deceive.
the dangers of deepfake is that it can scam people, confuse and deceive the public in many ways, the challenge with detecting deep fakes and tracking deep fakes is that they are deep and untraceable at times amateurish deepwebs can be tracked and traced.
Naim Taylor 