Boundary lines? Deepfakes weaponized against journalists and activists
In episode 4 of the Deepfakery series, Samantha Cole of VICE, Megha Rajagopalan of BuzzFeed, and author Nina Schick discuss the dangers that manipulated media create for journalists and activists, especially women. The conversation is moderated by Assia Boundaoui, a 2020-2021 Co-Creation Journalism Fellow at MIT Open Documentary Lab, generously sponsored by JustFilms at Ford Foundation.
Deepfakery is a series of critical conversations exploring the intersection of satire, art, human rights, misinformation/disinformation, and journalism. Join WITNESS and the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab for interdisciplinary discussions with leading artists, activists, academics, film-makers and journalists.