News, Fake News, and Deep Fakes. How Do We Know What’s True?, Part 4: Automated Approaches to Detecting, Attributing, and Characterizing Falsified Media

Episode Topic: Automated Approaches to Detecting, Attributing, and Characterizing Falsified Media

The U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency most often referred to by its acronym DARPA, was formed in response to the Soviet Union’s launching of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a feat which took the U.S. government by surprise and which it could not match technologically when it happened. In the decades since, DARPA has invested in new and emerging technologies – everything from the Internet to the messenger RNA vaccine type used in many COVID shots – to make sure Washington is prepared to meet the tech challenges of tomorrow, challenges which recently have extended into the disinformation space.

Featured Speakers: 

• Matt Turek, Program Manager, DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O)
• James S. O’Rourke, Teaching Professor of Management, University of Notre Dame

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/edb212. 

This podcast is a part of the Ten Years Hence ThinkND Series titled “News, Fake News, and Deep Fakes. How Do We Know What’s True?”.

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