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  • Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI)-driven deep learning software to manipulate preexisting photographs, videos, or audio recordings of a person to create new, fake images, videos, and audio recordings.
  • AI technology has the ability to manipulate media and swap out a genuine person's voice and likeness for similar counter parts.
  • Deepfake creators use this fake substance to spread misinformation and other illegal activities.Deepfakes are frequently used on social networking sites to elicit heated responses or defame opponents.
  • One can identify AI created fake videos by identifying abnormal eye movement, Unnatural facial expressions, a lack of feeling, awkward-looking hand,body or posture,unnatural physical movement or form, unnatural coloring, Unreal-looking hair,teeth that don't appear natural, Blurring, inconsistent audio or noise, images that appear unnatural when slowed down, differences between hashtags blockchain-based digital fingerprints, reverse image searches.
  • Look for details,like stange background,orientation of teeth,handsclothing,asymmetrical facial features,use reverse image search tools.
  • Propagandist journalists are seen as the true journalists by autocratic rulers and populist leaders worldwide, as they serve as the government's cheerleaders.
  • Globally, populist and nationalist leaders passed draconian laws to punish journalists under the guise of "fake news" or "not in the national interest."
  • False or misleading informations are spread by organizations posing as legitimate media outlets in an attempt to twist public opinion in favor of a certain ideology.
  • On social media,watch out for fake messages and news.
  • Check Google Images for Authenticity. The Google Reverse Images search can helps you.
  • It Would Be Better to Ignore Social Media Messages that are forwarded from Unknown or Little-Known Sources.
  • It is a horrible crime to post obscene, morphed images of women on social media networks, sometimes even in pornographic websites, as retaliation.
  • If a fake message asks you to share something, you can quickly recognize it as fake messege.
  • Always Check Independent Fact Checking Sites if You Have Some Doubts About the Authenticity of Any Information or Picture or video.

Category: Focus on Refugees

December 8, 2019

UNHCR Uses a New Technique to Incre...

UNHCR opened two sites inside the Kutupalong refugee settlement, in December 2018 and January 2019, to treat bamboo. Using a technique established by local NGO BRAC, refugee workers at the sites hollow out the bamboo stalks, make cuts in the exterior in order to increase absorption, and then soak them for 12-15 days in tanks filled with a solution made from boric acid and borax – with 90 percent water for 10 percent of chemicals. The result is bamboo that can last twice as long – or more – than an average bamboo

November 1, 2019

The Plight and Dilemmas of Syrian R...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to return up to 2 million refugees to Syria. Under his plan, the refugees would return to what he has called a “safe zone” created by the Turkish military…Iraqi Kurdish officials say at least 12,000 people have crossed the border from Syria, seeking safety in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

October 16, 2019

Estimated 160,000 people on the Mov...

World Food Programme (WFP) is deeply concerned about the safety of civilians caught up in the violence as military operations continue across northeastern Syria, around the towns of Ras al-Ayn in Hasakeh and Tell Abyad in Raqqa

October 15, 2019

Escalation of Fighting in Northeast...

While significant further displacements continue, UNICEF’s partners have started providing emergency assistance to families arriving at collective shelters in Hassakeh city and Tal Tamar

August 28, 2019

UNHCR Uses Cash Assistance for Ref...

Twenty-five-year-old Florence Idiongo fled South Sudan in 2016 and for two years she and her twelve dependents lived in a plastic tent in Kalobeyei settlement

August 16, 2019

Rohingya Refugee Children

UNICEF is supporting the development of youth centres and adolescent clubs in which life skills, psychosocial support, basic literacy and numeracy and vocational skills are provided as part of a comprehensive package. Nearly 70 such facilities were operational by July 2019 but far more are needed

July 16, 2019

UNHCR Expressed its Concerns About...

UNHCR had issued a call to all governments in the region to get together urgently to develop and implement a coordinated regional response to the growing numbers of people leaving Central America

July 13, 2019

Refugees Lamb Farm

The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust works to promote rural communities in the Yorkshire Dales and facilitates work days on a sheep farm for refugees and asylum seekers in England

July 10, 2019

Cox Bazar Flooding

At least 47 water distribution points and network, and over 600 latrines have been affected or damaged, increasing the risk of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD), to which children are especially vulnerable

July 1, 2019

WFP Began a Partial Suspension of F...

WFP has in recent months been providing food assistance to more than 10 million people, making the Yemen emergency response the agency’s largest anywhere in the world. The agency aims to feed 12 million of the most vulnerable and food-insecure people a month – effectively doubling the 2018 targets

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