Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
by dmix on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:06PM
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By "unleashing the military" they mean a DARPA research program.
Straight to the top of HN!
Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
by lwansbrough on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:09PM
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Tangentially related: what's the name for the approach where you analyze word choices and sentence structure in order to fingerprint a person?
Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
by danjc on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:13PM
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Forensic linguistics? This technique was invented during the manhunt for the Unabomber. Features in the Netflix series of the same name.
Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
by FireBeyond on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:13PM
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Forensic linguistics or linguistic fingerprinting.
Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
by eukaryote31 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:16PM
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Stylometry?
Re:U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation
by lwansbrough on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:39PM
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That's the one, thanks!
> The Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program will develop technologies to automatically detect, attribute, and characterize falsified multi-modal media assets (text, audio, image, video) to defend against large-scale, automated disinformation attacks.
The primary use case for this is election security, but more generally being able to detect and defend against an adversary trying to seed political discord with fake accounts, or fake news, so-called "deep fakes", etc.
[1] - https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppI...