Facebook allies itself with the Reuters news agency to create an online course that identifies deepfakes, the manipulated videos, considered the new frontier of disinformation. The course lasts 45 minutes and is designed to give journalists the tools they need to identify and avoid fake photos, videos and audio.
The material is available in English, Spanish, Arabic and French and is thought of as a translation into 12 other languages. The initiative is part of the Facebook Journalism Project. In the course of 2020 the two realities will hold public events on the subject.
In September, the social network owned by Mark Zuckerberg joined a breakfast consisting of several companies and universities called Deepfake Detection Challenge and committed to investing $ 10 million to create videos with researchers explaining how to identify videos counterfeit.
"The collaboration with Reuters is important both for journalists and for us, to stop the phenomenon of online disinformation," said Julia Bain of Facebook. "90% of the manipulated news we see online, are counterfeit videos, I think it's an important starting point," adds Hazel Baker of Reuters.
