DARPA is funding new tech that can identify manipulated videos and ‘deepfakes’

Techcrunch -------- The Menlo Park-based nonprofit research group SRI International has been awarded three contracts by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to wage war on the newest front in fake news. Specifically, DARPA’s Media Forensics program is developing tools capable of identifying when videos and photos have been meaningfully altered from their original state in order to misrepresent their content. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.