Faking the Powerful
In episode 6 of the deepfakery series, human rights activists Julie Owono (Internet without Borders, Facebook Oversight Board) and Adebayo Okeowo (WITNESS), and University of Oklahoma human rights law professor Evelyn Aswad (also a member of Facebook’s Oversight Board) discuss how to apply a human rights framework to deepfakes and manipulated media, and focus in on shallowfakes, deepfakes and satire in Africa.
Deepfakery is a series of critical conversations exploring the intersection of satire, art, human rights, misinformation/disinformation, and journalism. Join WITNESS and the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab for interdisciplinary discussions with leading artists, activists, academics, film-makers and journalists.