Deepfakes a threat to elections

Ed Delp
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WHAT: Manipulated video, dubbed deepfakes, are the latest tool in social media and seen as a potential weapon in the upcoming 2020 presidential election  

EXPERT: Ed Delp, the Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, can talk about progress in manipulated video creation and detection. 

QUOTE:  “It’s possible that people are going to use fake videos to make fake news and insert these into a political election. There’s been some evidence of that in other elections throughout the world already.

“We’ve got our election coming up in 2020 and I suspect people will use these. People believe them and that will be the problem.”

MORE INFORMATION

• Release: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2019/Q2/video-manipulation-technology-poses-danger-to-future-elections.html
• Delp is director of the Video and Imaging Processing Laboratory at Purdue University.
• A YouTube video is at https://youtu.be/aWKBWoDtR8k. B-roll also is available. 

CONTACT: 

Writer: Brian Huchel, 765-494-2084, bhuchel@purdue.edu 

Source: Edward Delp, 765-494-1740, ace@ecn.purdue.edu