DOMINOES Glossary

(A portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake") are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness. While the act of creating fake content is not new, deepfakes leverage powerful techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence to manipulate or generate visual and audio content that can more easily deceive. The main machine learning methods used to create deepfakes are based on deep learning and involve training generative neural network architectures, such as autoencoders, or generative adversarial networks (GANs)

Relating to the wider discourse around a subject; the bigger picture

False or misleading content that is spread with an intention to deceive or secure economic or political gain, and which may cause public harm. Disinformation includes various forms of misleading content such as fake news, hoaxes, lies, half-truths and, also, artificially inflated engagement based on automated accounts, trolls, bots, fake profiles that spread and amplify social media posts

Social media account that has been hijacked or replicated and is operated by bots

Feeling for and with the characters present in a narrative

Framing issues through added emphasis on the values and beliefs of intended audiences, making the news more attractive, and harder to ignore

When an idea is made to look more credible based on having received a vote-of-confidence from a celebrity or perceived trustworthy person

A type of framing in which an argument is semantically adjusted to make the argument more preferable or agreeable to targeted audiences

The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her. Paragraph 1 shall not apply if the decision: (a) is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller; (b) is authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests; or (c) is based on the data subject's explicit consent

The process of checking that all the facts in a piece of writing, a news article, a speech, etc. are correct