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Entering the Future of Deep Fake News
Disinformation has been employed for centuries to create chaos and divide people. The biggest difference today is technology, and among the latest technology being used to spread disinformation is deepfakes. With this technology you can make a person act or say just about anything. Given the high risk that they will affect social systems and democracy as a whole, deepfakes have become the center of many disinformation debates. Question is, what can we do to counter the misusage and spread of it? As with all fake news problems, there is no silver-bullet solution to deepfakes. But the key is to find ways to verify whether the information is real or not. In order to do that, you must collect more information that complements the original source. This is where open source intelligence plays a vital part.
Open source intelligence, i.e., information collected from public sources online, can be used to verify the credibility of images, videos, and other sources. Using open source techniques, it’s possible to establish the veracity of a piece of information by providing a context for it. Because with deepfakes, it’s impossible to tell if an image or video is real or not simply by looking at it. You have to go deeper.
Intelligence that indicates whether or not a piece of information has been manipulated could include information about when an image or video was taken, where it was taken, and if it correlates to a specific event. It could also involve taking a closer look at the file information. If the EXIF data has been stripped or changed in any way, that is an indication that someone wants to hide something.
The most important thing is to verify against credible sources. At Paliscope, we have started to build a platform around that very idea. Our software is used to collect intelligence online, and by integrating third-party services which work with different types of detection online, it is now possible to automatically match information against credible sources and information databases to find out if there’s more to an image or video or not.
For example, it’s possible to search and match against specific usernames on the Darknet, use face recognition technology to discover more photos of a specific person online, and to find similar images based on EXIF data such as location and camera serial number. Our hope is that using these resources will help investigators find more intelligence online, for example, when trying to tell a real from a fake.
Even though the growing field of innovation around spotting deepfakes is tremendous, we still have a long way to go. With advances in artificial intelligence, fakes will only become more sophisticated and realistic over time. For this reason, it becomes even more critical to investigate the information existing behind and around an image or video. With that intelligence you can create a more comprehensive picture and, ultimately, discern what is fake and prove what is real.
Paliscope is software for online investigations. Used by law enforcement, insurance companies and the finance sector, Paliscope helps investigators to tackle all sorts of crime types online.
Using Paliscope, investigators can match information against other sources and databases to find more related intelligence and verify its credibility. It is, for example, possible to search and match against specific usernames on the Darknet, use face recognition technology to search for more photos of a specific person online, and find similar images based on EXIF data, such as location and camera serial number. Altogether, Paliscope works as a comprehensive platform when searching for intelligence online – whether it is an investigation of a specific event or individual, or when trying to discern fake from real.
Watch this video of how Paliscope can be used to track down an individual online:
Paul de Souza, CSFI-CWD (Cyber Warfare Division) Founder Director
Military Cyber Professionals Association (MCPA) Advisor
Adjunct Faculty, George Washington University
Board of Advisors at The Cyber Intelligence Initiative (CII) at The Institute of World Politics
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