Smartphone footage has transformed how we document war crimes. But what happens when anyone can claim “it’s a deepfake”?

Professor Yvonne McDermott-Rees (Swansea University) leads the TRUE Project, investigating how AI-generated media affects trust in user-generated evidence of human rights violations.

In this episode, we explore:

• Whether the “liar’s dividend” is actually showing up in courtrooms

• What mock jury experiments reveal about how people evaluate digital evidence

• Why the biggest risk may be real footage being dismissed—not fakes entering court

Learn more: trueproject.co.uk

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