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Digital Identity and Media Authenticity Terms

Identity proofing, verification badges, deepfakes, misinformation, and content provenance — badges are not proof of every claim.

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Digital Identity and Media Authenticity

Community Note

A community note is a crowd-contributed contextual note attached to a post to add sources or caveats, used on some platforms.

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Content Provenance

Content provenance is metadata and technical signals describing how a piece of media was created, edited, and released.

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Digital Identity

Digital identity is the set of attributes and credentials used to represent a person or entity in online systems.

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Fact Checking

Fact checking is a journalistic or research process that evaluates whether specific public claims are supported by evidence.

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Identity Theft

Identity theft is unauthorized use of another person’s identifying information to commit fraud or other crimes.

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Identity Verification

Identity verification is the process of collecting and checking evidence that a person is who they claim to be for an account or transaction.

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Liveness Detection

Liveness detection tries to confirm that a biometric sample comes from a live person present at capture time rather than a photo, video, or mask.

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Synthetic Identity

A synthetic identity combines real and fabricated personal data to create a new identity used for fraud or credit abuse.

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Verifiable Credential

A verifiable credential is a tamper-evident digital credential that an issuer cryptographically signs for a holder to present selectively.

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