Rather than hoping for the emergence of some new ‘party of the left,’ EMMA DENT COAD sees a broad alliance of local parties and community groups as a way of reviving democratic progressive politics
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Should we be worried about the latest video editing technology?
The newest video manipulation software in the wrong hands could be a tool for mass misinformation, yet the researchers who created the software are dismissive of its disruptive effects. Rox Middleton, Liam Shaw and Joel Hellewell look at the facts
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ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
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IN early June 2019, a fake video of Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, began to circulate around the social media platform Instagram. In it, he appeared to thank a shadowy organisation called “Spectre” for helping him manipulate people into willingly divulging their personal information to him.
The video, which is still available to watch on YouTube, looks authentic, but was in fact generated by an algorithm that is able to mimic human voices and facial appearances. Worryingly, other algorithms exist that can do the task even more convincingly.
An international team of scientists, working with Adobe — the company that is responsible for Photoshop, commonly used to create doctored images — have created software that can alter the words that people say in a video of them speaking.
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