Fake-Checking: A Journalists Guide to Deepfakes [Paperback]

Foreword

Acknowledgements

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Introduction: From Fact-Checking to Fake-Checking

Chapter 1: Fact-Checking Confronts the Challenge of Deepfakes

Chapter 2: The Evolution of Fakery and Deepfakes

Chapter 3: Detection Practices and Tools

Chapter 4: Deepfake Uses, Ethics, and Emerging Challenges

Chapter 5: Helping Audiences Make Sense of Deepfakes

Conclusion: Journalism in the Matrix?

Glossary

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Index

Designed to help journalists keep pace with the rapid evolution of deepfakes as well as integrate fake-checking methods into their routine reporting practices, this book offers a concise and accessible guide for reporters navigating this evolving challenge.

Designed to help journalists keep pace with the rapid evolution of deepfakes as well as integrate fake-checking methods into their routine reporting practices, this book offers a concise and accessible guide for reporters navigating this evolving challenge.

This guide aims to assist journalists in understanding the complexities of deepfakes from a number of angles including philosophical, historical, technical, and methodological. Rather than approaching deepfakes as a journalistic apocalypse, this book contextualises them in the larger historical practice of fact-checking and on a continuum of technological advances in image and video manipulation. Encouraging readers to view fact-checking as a multimodal process, it stresses the importance of combining philosophical and technical tools, especially ones based in epistemology and artifical intelligence (AI), in addition to the pavement pounding essentials of good journalism. The book concludes with a chapter addressing how to explain delã