With important elections and armed conflicts across the world, trustworthy news is essential to stable democracy. So, whether you are a journalist building a news story for broadcast or a viewer watching news on social media – how can we trust what we see? The session’s first paper, provides an extraordinarily thorough walk through of the recently standardised Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) security and trust system. Illustrating its capabilities by considering cutting a piece of supposed broadcast news and posting it to social media, to identify any gaps and ensure useful provenance information is shown in such situations. The second paper reports on trials undertaken by the BBC and the Media Cluster, Norway to implement C2PA, including how best to communicate that provenance information to the viewer.

Moderator:

Muriel Deschanel, former Head of Research & Innovation Department - IRT b-com 

Speakers:

John Simmons, Independent Consultant - Lead author of the Paper in collaboration with Verance

Judy Parnall, Head of Standards & Industry - BBC R&D

Watch the full session: Provenance – what can we trust?

Watch more: Provenance – what can we trust? Results of C2PA proof of concept test undertaken by the BBC

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