Journal of
Media and Communication Studies

  • Abbreviation: J. Media Commun. Stud.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2545
  • DOI: 10.5897/JMCS
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 232

Article in Press

The impact of deepfakes on the credibility of television news A field study on workers in television newsrooms

Mohaned Hameed Obaid

  •  Received: 23 October 2023
  •  Accepted: 18 January 2024
Deepfakes have a large number of social, political, propaganda, and public opinion influences. As well as its impact on the credibility of television news. This research is descriptive, and the researcher relied on the survey method to study the contact person working in TV newsrooms. The researcher chose the channels (Al-Iraqiya, Al-Raba'a, iNews, Al-Rasheed) as a research community to distribute the contact forms on these satellite channels to the workers in the newsrooms. The researcher chose these channels for several reasons, the most prominent of which is that all of these channels operate with one working system within the newsrooms, which is the (I News) system, which is the latest system for electronic newsrooms. The study reached Deep falsification greatly affects the credibility of television news and reduces public confidence in satellite channels as a source of news.

Keywords: deepfake, artificial intelligence, smart newsrooms, deepfake detection, deepfake verification.