Facebook announces the winner of its Deepfake Detection Challenge

In September of 2019, Facebook launched its Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC) -- a public contest to develop autonomous algorithmic detection systems to combat the emerging threat of deepfake videos. After nearly a year, the social media platform announced the winners of the challenge, out of a pool of more than 2,000 global competitors. Deepfakes present a unique challenge to social media platforms. Capable of being produced with little more than a consumer-grade GPU and software that can be downloaded from the internet. With it, individuals can quickly and easily create fraudulent video clips, the subjects of which appearing to say or do things that they actually didn't.