Student Team Wins Journalism Innovation Competition With Deepfake Fighting Tool

Two School of Computing and Engineering teams pitched their ideas for fighting fake news during the University of Missouri School of Journalism’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute student innovation competition

Columbia, Mo. — A web-based tool known as Deeptector.io, which harnesses artificial intelligence to detect synthetic or deepfake videos and images made with AI, won the 2019-20 Missouri School of Journalism’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute student innovation competition and a $10,000 prize. 

Defakify won second place and $2,500, while Fake Lab received $1,000 for third place. Deep Scholars also participated, but did not place in the competition. Read more.

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Published: Feb 21, 2020

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