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Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked?

Posted by timothy on from the justice-for-marion-barry dept.

BStorm writes "The Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been making headlines around the world, for allegedly smoking crack. This story was first broken by gawker.com, which is now crowd-funding $200,000 to buy the video in question. What do you look for to determine if a video has been faked? Of course I am only interested in the technical details and not the tawdry details related to this case ;) I live in Toronto, so the video still frame posted on Gawker certainly does look like Rob Ford."

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  1. By looking at some of the pixels... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...and having seen quite a few fake videos in your time.