Fake News is not something new. It is a concept that existed since ancient times. Disinformation and misinformation were tools used to deceive rivals, from personal competitors to hostile states.
It was elevated to an art in the 19th and 20th centuries, in the form of propaganda and disinformation, from times of peace to times of war.
It is now that these issues are exploding in exponential ways, so fast and so intense that we cannot even follow developments.
Today we are going to talk about three related issues: fake news, deep fakes and synthetic media.
About Basil Manoussos
Basil Manoussos is a seasoned Digital Forensics & Cybercrime Consultant, with 15 years of professional experience in Digital Evidence. Basil is also the Manager of the Cyber Academy at Edinburgh Napier University.
He is a Member of the BCS Influence Board. He is also a non-solicitor member of the Privacy Law Subcommittee and the Technology Law and Practice Committee at the Law Society of Scotland. Basil has designed and delivered the Society’s Cybersecurity Certification, the only one of its kind for solicitors in the UK.
He has contributed to INTERPOL’s Project LEADER as a guest speaker and participated in transnational exercises and mock trials with Project SIRUS. He is a regular keynote speaker at conferences around the world, including Cybersecurity Romania, INTERPOL DFEG2023, IEEE BlackSeaCom, and many more. He is a regular guest speaker to universities and colleges, including UCL, Robert Gordon, Glasgow Uni, the University of Strathclyde (where he obtained his MSc in Forensic Informatics), University of West of Scotland, various colleges and the American College of Greece (his alma mater).
He is a visiting lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, West Lothian College and has served in delivering training to postgraduate law students at the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy).
Basil has won the Best Educator award (2023) at the PICCASO Privacy Awards, and he has been a finalist at the Scottish Cyber Awards in 2018 and 2019 (Cyber Evangelist of the Year) and 2023 (Community Award).