LibGuides: Information Literacy: Post-Truth and Deepfake

Post-Truth, What is it?

Lee McIntyre in Business Insider: Trump has told more than 6,420 lies as president, and his total abandonment of truth is eroding American democracy as we know it
The point of a lie is to convince someone that a falsehood is true. But the point of post-truth is domination. In my analysis, post-truth is an assertion of power.

Techcrunch: This System Instantly Edits Videos to Make it Look Like You're Saying Something You're Not (2016)
Techcrunch: Forget DeepFakes, Deep Video Portraits are way better (and worse)(2018)
Reuters: Truth and authentication; the frightening world of video fakes
Advances in AI-based technology mean it is now possible to create highly convincing videos showing real people – whether public figures or not – saying anything the creator desires, in any kind of setting. This means Reuters and other news organizations should be concerned about the potential for misuse of these so-called “deepfake” videos within the news agenda.

Mckay Coppins from the Atlantic
President Trump has personally pledged to spend one billion dollars if it will keep him in the White House. McKay Coppins, a journalist for The Atlantic, has identified how a substantial amount of this funding is being spent. After creating a Facebook page so he could follow pro-Trump social media accounts and communicate with online Trump supporters, Coppins uncovered something remarkable: a campaign-coordinated effort to undermine journalists and the mainstream press on a mass scale. Coppins told Hari Sreenivasan about the Trump campaign’s stunning effort to launch one of the largest disinformation campaigns ever conducted.