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I create manipulated images and videos – but quality may not matter much

  • Written by Christye Sisson, Associate Professor of Photographic Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
It can be tricky to make it look like people are doing things they never did.Alexander Sobol/Shutterstock.com

Lots of people – including Congress – are worried about fake videos and imagery distorting the truth, purporting to show people saying and doing things they never said or did.

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