Thema 10: DeepFakes, Fake News, and Myth Debunking

DeepFakes, Fake News, and Myth Debunking

DeepFakes, Fake News, and Myth Debunking
Social media aggregate people around common interests eliciting a collective framing of narratives and worldviews. However, the wide availability of user-provided content and the direct path between producers and consumers of information often foster confusion about causations, encouraging mistrust, rumors, and even conspiracy thinking.

You can work on technical topics, or data science, or user studies.

We are interested in:

Survey of DeepFake Technology

Experimental Design & User Studies on DeepFakes

Improving Deep Fake Detection

Earlier topics in this area included:

Summary of the research dealing with social media conspiracy spreading and myth debunking
Conducting systematic literature reviews
Finding potential social media data sets and conduct further analysis.
Fake News Detection for German Texts

Literature Survey: 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330839633_Fake_News_Conspiracies_and_Myth_Debunking_in_Social_Media_-_A_Literature_Survey_Across_Disciplines