In information age we are coming across more and more fake news that also have huge impact in the world of politics. USA elections in 2016 were defined by stories of massive fake news production, especially the one about Macedonian city Veles, where teenagers earned thousands of Euros by producing fake news about elections. Next year a user known as "deepfakes" published pornographic videos on Reddit website where he replaced faces of pornstars with faces of Hollywood celebrities. A lot of similar websites took action and banned fake videos from their sites. In this assignment we will also present a guide on how to create a fake video like the ones created by user "deepfakes". In the end we will present some algorithms that can detect fake videos.
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