Deepfakes, online deception and the decline of trust
Alex Meehan explains why now, more than ever, you can’t always believe your eyes
As expressions go, “seeing is believing” is one of the least accurate around. Arguably it’s never been true – psychologists, police officers and even stage magicians have long known that people tend to see what they want to see, rather than what’s really there. But in the modern era, this saying is definitely problematic.
In the 1930s, Stalin famously edited photos to remove communist party officials who had fallen out of favour, and Hitler likewise ...
