Synthetic Media: The Real Trouble With Deepfakes
By M. Mitchell Waldrop Knowable Magazine The snapshots above look like people you’d know. Your daughter’s best friend from college, maybe? That guy from human resources at work? The emergency-room […]
Tag Archives: Social Media
The Age of Artificial Immortality
By James Vlahos Wired It’s 1982, and I’m 11 years old, sitting at a Commodore PET computer terminal in the atrium of a science museum near my house. Whenever I come […]
Germany Confronts Russian Hybrid Warfare
By Kaan Sahin Carnegie Europe Ever since the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Western capitals have been alarmed at Russia’s hybrid warfare campaigns. That these activities are […]
Fake News, Faith, and Reason
By Jerry Adler Yahoo! News A dozen or so years ago, I was working on a profile of Zig Ziglar, the famous motivational speaker who died in 2012, and I […]
Tweets as Criminal Assault
By Elizabeth E. Joh New Scientist Social media raises tricky questions that judges are beginning to try to answer. It has been found possible to violate a restraining order by […]
War Goes Viral
By Emerson T. Brooking & Peter W. Singer The Atlantic Like most everything today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a […]
ISIS and the Social Media War
By Brendan I. Koerner Wired The Islamic State recognized the power of digital media early on, when its brutish progenitor, Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, discovered the utility of uploading grainy […]
