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First ever study of wartime deepfakes reveals their impact on news media
25 Oct 2023
- Deepfakes are artificially manipulated audio-visual material.
- This new study examined tweets about deepfakes during the Russo-Ukrainian war, UCC researchers demonstrated that deepfakes undermine peoples trust generally in news media.
- This study is the first empirical analysis of the use of deepfakes in wartime misinformation and propaganda.