https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/marks-challenge-mathias-dopfner/ April 1st, 2019 Mark Zuckerberg shared the second conversation of his 2019 personal challenge. He sat down with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Europe’s largest publisher Axel Springer, to discuss the role quality journalism plays in building informed communities and the principles Facebook should use for building a news tab to surface more high quality […]Read More

Patrick Tucker, Technology Editor, Defense One, March 31st, 2019 https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/03/next-phase-ai-deep-faking-whole-world-and-china-ahead/155944/ Step 1: Use AI to make undetectable changes to outdoor photos. Step 2: release them into the open-source world and enjoy the chaos. Worries about deep fakes — machine-manipulated videos of celebrities and world leaders purportedly saying or doing things that they really didn’t — […]Read More

Singapore has a Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill to combat fake news. Some reporting may be of interest: Parliament: Up to 10 years’ jail for individuals and $1 million fine for firms under draft law against online falsehoodsTham Yuen-C, Senior Political Correspondent, Strait Times, 1 April 2019Those who spread online falsehoods with a […]Read More

Our Take Following the conclusion of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation, ASD published a fact sheet on Russian interference. As it illustrates, “Russian interference operations against the United States during the 2016 presidential election were vast and complex,” and involved a sustained, multi-vector campaign to “damage our democracy and divide our citizens.” Most importantly, that campaign […]Read More