Click (2000)

10/11/2018 - Top Quality Fake News (2018x45)

Date de diffusion: Nov 10, 2018

To kick off the BBC's fake news season Click goes to Kosovo to see what effects Facebook's reforms have had on the fake news industry there. 18 months ago things were booming with a heady cocktail of connectivity, tech savvy young people, few traditional job opportunities and the prospect of earning megabucks - how have things changed? Also we revisit the topic of deepfakes to see how the techniques of face swapping pioneered by a niche pornographic community are finding legit uses. And we hang out with Lyrebird the Canadian company who claim to be able to synthesise anyone's voice from just a small amount of source material