Fake News Is About to Get a Lot Worse. That Will Make It Easier to Violate Human Rights — and Get Away with It.

April 3, 2018
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New article in the Washington Post by Scott Edwards and Carr Center's Senior Fellow Steven Livingston.

"In the past few years, the brave new online world has made it both much easier, and vastly harder, to establish the facts about human rights violations. Human rights investigators are racing to take advantage of, and struggling to keep up with, the latest technology advances, from satellite imagery to artificial intelligence, from fake news to increasingly sophisticated computer-generated visuals.

And it’s all about to get worse. "

Read the full article.