Sharks in the streets came up during a United Facts of America roundtable about what misinformation fact-checkers are seeing. The next wave of online misinformation will be primarily visual, including photoshopped images and edited videos.
On Sept. 29, Mediawise Director Alex Mahadevan interviewed three expert fact-checkers with Reuters, USA Today and Agence France-Presse for United Facts of America’s last panel discussion. The panelists, Christina Anagnostopoulos, Arthur MacMillan and Martina Stewart, discussed misinformation, present and future, and the limits of fact-checking. Sharks in the streets came up, too.
Stewart also said that although her team has not yet encountered many real deepfakes — manipulated videos that yield seemingly realistic, but fabricated, images and sounds — the next wave of online misinformation will be primarily visual. "It had been shared half a million times by yesterday despite us doing the story saying this is not accurate," MacMillan said. "It was being presented as this was about Hurricane Ian. It wasn’t. It was six years out of date. But people fall for it and they share it."
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