What Platforms Can Do to Combat Deep Fakes?

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We're not trying to create some arbiter of truth, a brother like intrastructure. It's about creating the decentralized ways that important up dates and corrections to how we make sense of the world make sure they reach the people whom they need to be reached. There's always the sort of grayithink. This problem reveals the grey zones and the complexity of these issues that there isn't some clear answer. And so if you then get put into a little bit of an attentional jail. You can't teat now for one hour, but ifyou do it again, two hours, if you do it again four hours. The same thing could be used for misinformation or for conspiracy.

How does disinformation spread in the age of COVID-19? It takes an expert like Renée DiResta to trace conspiracy theories back to their source. She’s already exposed how Russian state actors manipulated the 2016 election, but that was just a prelude to what she’s seeing online today: a convergence of state actors and lone individuals, anti-vaxxers and NRA supporters, scam artists and preachers and the occasional fan of cuddly pandas. What ties all of these disparate actors together is an information ecosystem that’s breaking down before our eyes. We explore what’s going wrong and what we must do to fix it in this interview with Renée DiResta, Research Manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory.