Microsoft's private preview of Content Integrity tools expands to fight election deepfakes

Neowin— Microsoft has announced that the private preview of Content Integrity tools will expand to EU political parties, campaigns, and media groups worldwide to fight election deepfake images.

ExtremeTech—Microsoft Swears VASA-1 Deepfake Tool Isn't for Creating Deepfakes. Though it was trained on real people's images and audio clips, VASA-1 is allegedly meant for creating 'virtual characters.'

MediaNama—Microsoft Expands Digital Authentication Tools to EU Campaigns. Microsoft announces an expansion of its Content Integrity tools to the EU, aiming to secure digital content in political campaigns and news organizations.

TheBlaze—The dangerous public-private partnerships behind America’s elections. Why have so many Americans lost faith in our election system? Have you lost faith? I would like to discuss how we can fix the loss of trust in our electoral system, but to do so, we must first address the root of the problem.I do not want to discuss the results of 2020 here. But we do need to look at the system that was unleashed during the pandemic: expanded absentee voting, mass mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, chain-of-custody of those ballots, ballot curing. All of these practices cause...