About That Pelosi Video: What to Do About ‘Cheapfakes’ in 2020
In the summer of 2016, a meme began to circulate on the fringes of the right-wing internet: the notion that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was seriously…
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What's Next: Why Lawyers Need to Care About Deepfakes + AI and Zoning Law (It’s Going to Be a Thing)
"Welcome back to What’s Next, where we report on the intersection of law and technology. Today, we talk with Stanford’s Riana Pfefferkorn about deepfakes a…
‘Deepfakes’: A New Challenge for Trial Courts
The following was excerpted from an article that will appear in a future issue of NWLawyer. The author was also recently interviewed for the “What’s Next” newsl…
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Legal Scholars Dive into Implications of Deep Fakes
"“Imagine the night before an IPO, a deep fake video of the CEO comes out of the CEO soliciting a child prostitute or doing drugs,” University of Maryland…
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Lawmakers plunge into "deepfake" war
"Lawmakers don't get many chances to get this right, says Citron. "You gotta write this correctly." One or two over-broad or ineffective bill…
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Fake Porn Videos Are Terrorizing Women. Do We Need a Law to Stop Them?
"This raises the question of whether Congress could draft a law narrow enough to help victims of deepfakes without such unintended consequences. As a cauti…
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Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’
"Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who has studied ways to combat online abuse, says the country is in desperate need of a more compr…
Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War
By Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there is nothing that persuades quite like an audio or video recording of an…
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You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die
"When Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, first became aware of the fake porn movies, she was initially struck by how viscer…
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Artificial intelligence conference explores darkside of technology with ‘threat to democracy’ conference
"The keynote speaker was Danielle Citron, Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law. Citron…
Disinformation on Steroids
Introduction Disinformation and distrust online are set to take a turn for the worse. Rapid advances in deep-learning algorithms to synthesize video and audio…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Lawmakers want intelligence chiefs to help counter threat from doctored videos
"Those types of efforts could increase if the intelligence community agrees to weigh in on deepfakes, said Danielle Citron, a privacy law expert at the Uni…