"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 University of Maryland and co-author of a new paper on the potential impact of deepfake technology. She said there could be a parallel in the response to Russia’s disinformation campaign during the 2016 election: Social media companies only started shutting down fraudulent accounts en masse after lawmakers and national security officials spotlighted the problem.
“Having the director of national intelligence reporting to Congress, having the threat bandied about very publicly, could get platforms to work more on these problems. This is the kind of feedback loop we need,” Citron told me. “They’re working on it, but maybe not as quickly as we might like them to. When we talk national security — and all election issues are now national security — I think they’ll pay attention.”"
- Date Published:09/14/2018
- Original Publication:The Washington Post