Researchers and media experts have met in New York to promote awareness of fake news -- how it is created and spread through social media.
The participants discussed how artificial intelligence, or AI, is making it possible to distort images and speech to generate propaganda.
They looked at a case study of how faulty information that aired on a local radio station spread through social media.
They focused on how a fake website mimicking Wikipedia could be made using AI.
On a positive note, they also introduced ways in which AI could be used to distinguish fake news, by checking whether information comes from a reliable source.
One of the organizers, Justin Hendrix of NYC Media Lab, said it is becoming increasingly important to develop technologies to help identify fake information.