Government Perspective: Deepfakes and Restoring Trust Online

Hodan Omaar speaks at Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center's event emphasizing the importance that policymakers ensure to internationalize efforts to mitigate harm from deepfakes and disinformation as malign information campaigns are increasingly targeting non-English speakers and immigrant communities.

The event identifies some of the problems surrounding disinformation online including the threat of deepfake information campaigns to national security and democratic values and discusses solutions.