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March 11, 2019

Making a ‘deepfake’: How creating our own synthetic video helped us learn to spot one

By Hazel Baker

Hazel Baker is global head of user-generated content newsgathering at Reuters news agency.

Those of us working in the field of verification know there is no shortage of ways video can be distorted.

Every day, the specialist team of social media producers I lead at Reuters encounters video that has been stripped of context, mislabelled, edited, staged or even modified using CGI.

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