Video Verification in the Fake News Era

This book presents the latest technological advances and practical tools for discovering, verifying and visualizing social media video content, and managing related rights. The digital media revolution is bringing breaking news to online video platforms,

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ideo Verification in the Fake News Era

Video Verification in the Fake News Era

Vasileios Mezaris Lyndon Nixon Symeon Papadopoulos Denis Teyssou •





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Editors Vasileios Mezaris Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Information Technologies Institute Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece Symeon Papadopoulos Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Information Technologies Institute Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece

Lyndon Nixon MODUL Technology GmbH MODUL University Vienna Vienna, Austria Denis Teyssou Agence France-Presse Paris, France

ISBN 978-3-030-26751-3 ISBN 978-3-030-26752-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26752-0

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Preface

The digital media revolution is bringing breaking news to online video platforms, and news organizations often rely on user-generated recordings of breaking and developing events shared in social media to illustrate the story. However, in video there is also deception. In today’s ‘fake news’ era, access to increasingly sophisticated editing and content management tools and the ease in which fake information spreads in electronic networks require the entire news and media industries to carefully verify third-party content before publishing it. This book presents the latest technological advances and practical tools for discovering, verifying and visualizing social media video content, and managing related rights. These are expected to be of interest to computer scientists and researchers, news and media professionals, and even policymakers and data-savvy media consumers. The book is organized in four main parts. Part I prese