VPRO Tegenlicht: Zien is geloven - English subtitled
This episode of the famous Dutch informative television programme Tegenlicht looks at how social media, information bubbles and Deepfake affect our reality.
We are living in an “infocalypse”, says British disinformation expert Nina Schick. In her book Deepfakes and the Infocalypse - What You Urgently Need to Know, she outlines a society inundated by too much information, where it is no longer possible to distinguish between information and disinformation. With the advent of social media, various groups in our society tend to increasingly retreat into their own echo chambers. Here, they experience their own subjective truth. This makes it increasingly difficult to reach consensus on how the “real” world should be seen.
This well-researched episode of the VPRO programme Tegenlicht sheds light on the consequences synthetic media can have on the spread of misinformation.